The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion which is encoded in the details.
故事是同理心的机器。与逻辑或理性相比，故事是关于情感的，这些情感被编码在细节中。
"I don't believe in happy endings. Life doesn't have them, so why should literature?"
钢铁行业必须适应未来的需求。
"The stage is where I feel most alive."
Evolutionary psychology is not about what's unchangeable in human nature, but about what was adaptive in our ancestral environment.