Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

On choosing friends: "Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful."

"Censorship creates better poets and more cunning novelists - we learn to whisper in colors and shout in metaphors."

进步并非不可避免；它是深思熟虑的选择和行动的结果。

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.