The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.

"To be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, that we can release ourselves from the old, old burden of resentment and recrimination."

我们常常认为幸福是得到我们想要的，但它更多的是关于珍惜我们已有的。

The stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are the most powerful stories of all.