I've never been interested in being average.
我从来对平庸不感兴趣。
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.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
当一扇门关闭时，你要知道，另一扇门正在打开。
我认为生活中最重要的事情是做你自己。除非你能成为蝙蝠侠。那就永远做蝙蝠侠。
"The first draft of anything is shit."
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him.
