写作是面对沉默。

当你不必假装成别人时，生活会轻松得多。

The best villains are those who believe they're the heroes of their own stories.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.