The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

In this trifling affair， that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events， the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.

Lightness is not just physical, but also psychological.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

可持续性不是水产养殖的流行语；而是唯一的前进道路。

Pain is not always transformative; sometimes it just hurts.