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.
常常，我们对一个成功人生的想象，不是来自我们自己，而是来自他人。如果你是个男人，你会以父亲做榜样，如果你是个女人，你会以母亲做榜样，精神分析已经重复说了80年，但很少有人真正听进去。但我的确相信这件事。
Efficiency without ethics is a path to failure.
最好的故事是反映生活复杂性的故事。
我不是为当下做音乐，我是为未来做音乐。
作家在自己的国家必须是个陌生人。
我会拼命地打好每一场球，就如那是我最后的一场！
真相往往存在于边缘。
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.