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.
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
最好的小说是那些让我们以不同方式看待世界的作品。
Escribir es recordar, pero también es olvidar.
艺术的未来不在于物体,而在于体验。