We are all obsessed with conspiracies, but we are also obsessed with the idea that there is a conspiracy behind everything.

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.

始终不渝地忠实于自己和别人，就能具备最伟大才华的最高贵品质。

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.

"The human condition is one of perpetual dissatisfaction; we are always searching for something more."