我写小说，人们说那是自传；我写自传，人们说那是小说。既然我这么笨，他们这么聪明，那就让他们决定是什么或不是什么吧。

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Mathematics is the foundation upon which all science is built.

I'm the reason your preacher can't preach.

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

所有人都是不朽的，但那些没有受教育的人是以一种更低级和不令人羡慕的方式不朽。

我不是为评论家做音乐，我是为那些真正过着我在歌里描述的生活的人做音乐。