The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it adjusts them to itself.

我是那种会让你想去教堂的人。

The only thing that can bring you happiness is yourself.

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

如果不是现在，那是什么时候？如果不是我，那会是谁？