Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

"Stories are the way we pass on our humanity."

The measure of a civilization is how it treats its artists.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you're going to double your inventiveness.

我从未能写出一部快乐的戏剧。我不能。我可以写一部有趣的戏剧，但不是一部快乐的戏剧。

"Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most stiff-necked adversary of thought."