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.

中央银行应该是不确定性海洋中的稳定灯塔。

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

The evidence for evolution is overwhelming.

写作的行为是一种勇气的行为。

与其杀死毒龙，不如避开毒龙。

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.