我不认为音乐是比赛。我只是尽力做出最好的音乐。

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

最好的想法往往来自倾听那些最接近问题的人。

文学是一种记忆，是对过去的回顾。

在自然状态下，所有人确实生而平等，但他们不能保持这种平等。社会使他们失去了这种平等，他们只有通过法律的保护才能重新获得它。