我们生来都带着某种包袱。我们就是我们：我们出生的地方，我们出生的身份，我们被养育的方式。我们有点被困在那个身份里，而文明和成长的目的是能够伸出手去，对其他人的处境感同身受。
We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.
我们智慧的最大证明是我们能够察觉自己的局限。
我不想成为一个伟大的人。我想成为一个好人。
小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。
"Grief is not a linear process. It comes in waves, and sometimes those waves knock you down."
爱音乐的人永远不会孤独。
管得最少的政府是最好的政府。
The stories we tell ourselves shape who we become.