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.

没有什么比独立和自由更宝贵的了。

南怀瑾：诸法的本来面目就是空相，诸法的实相亦是空相，诸法未曾离开空相，故云是诸法空相……一切法的实相是空，是故一切法从本以来，不生不灭，不垢不净，不增不减。

作家必须成为他们时代的见证者。