If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another， you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself your conclusions will not be predictable.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

And when you do I want you to know this， remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. Now when you’re down there in the hole， it looks like failure. So this past year I had to spoon feed those words to myself.

阅读的行为是对世界噪音的一种抵抗。