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.

Baking should be fun, not stressful.

中国的崛起将不可避免地导致与美国的冲突。

In the silence of the desert, you can hear the heartbeat of the earth.

The past is a ghost that won’t stop haunting you.

我希望网络为人类服务。它应该是人们使用的工具，而不是利用人们的技术。

〈在广东第一女子师范学校校庆纪念会的演说〉，1924年4月4日