To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

我认为拥有强烈的自我意识和知道自己是谁、想要什么非常重要。

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

"The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives in the span of one."

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.