If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve.
让人获得自由是艺术的目的。
有了图书馆,你就是自由的,不会被暂时的政治气候所限制。它是最民主的机构,因为没有人——绝对没有人——能告诉你该读什么、什么时候读以及如何读。
In the ruins of our cities, we search for the fragments of our identity.
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.