“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
英语
“你想飞翔，就得放下那些压得你喘不过气的东西。”
“The function of freedom is to free someone else.”
英语
“自由的功能就是去解放他人。”
“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
英语
“如果有一本你想读的书，但它还没有被写出来，那你就必须自己去写。”
“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.”
英语
“所有的水都有完美的记忆，永远试图回到它曾经所在的地方。”
“Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.”
英语
“解放自己是一回事，宣称对那个自由的自我的所有权是另一回事。”
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
英语
“在这个国家，“美国人”意味着白人。其他所有人都必须加连字符。”
“There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
英语
“没有时间绝望，没有地方自怜，不需要沉默，没有空间恐惧。我们说，我们写，我们运用语言。文明就是这样愈合的。”