如果我能用语言表达，就没有理由画画了。

The sociological imagination is the most fruitful form of self-consciousness.

历史不仅仅是一系列事件，而是人类经验和情感的复杂网络。

You have to be willing to sacrifice who you are for who you will become.

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness.

The spread of liberal democracy and the integration of the world economy have created a situation in which the only legitimate form of government is one that is based on popular sovereignty and respects basic human rights.