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.

幸福的家庭生活像一个美妙的仲夏之夜；内心安宁，身边的一切都闪耀着独特的光芒。

理解就是宽恕，即使当没有什么需要宽恕的时候。

You must not deny the story teller’s right to tell the story as he pleases.