I know what I can do, so it doesn't bother me what other people think or say.

真相很少是纯粹的，也从来不是简单的。

"I write to escape the world, but I always end up describing it."

"The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said."

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.