Happiness requires both pleasure and purpose - neither alone is sufficient.

You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.

飞得越高，摔得越重。

The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

我不想成为超级明星。我想成为一个超级人。