La literatura no es otra cosa que un sueño dirigido.

未来不是现在提供的替代路径中选择的结果，而是一个被创造的地方——首先在思想和意志中创造，然后在活动中创造。

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.

世界上充满了自童年起就再未以开放心灵面对开放门户的人。