Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.

我们想要的未来必须被发明出来，否则我们将得到一个我们不想要的未来。

金钱和成功不会改变人，它们只会放大已有的本性。

写作是我唯一能呼吸的方式。