The novel is a machine for generating meaning.
小说是生成意义的机器。
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.
真正的创新需要创造力和纪律。
事物是甜还是苦，尝试过的人才能辨别；道路有平坦与险阻，走过的人才知道。
I’m not afraid of what people say about me. I’m afraid of what I might say back.
永远不要让任何人告诉你你做不到某件事。