You are not someone else’s opinion of you.

历史学家既是侦探，也是讲故事的人。

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."

艺术家的角色是提出正确的问题，而不是提供解决方案。

It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

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.

"Writing is a journey into the unknown, a quest for understanding in a world full of mysteries."

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.