The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

现实不仅比我们假设的更奇怪，而且比我们能假设的更奇怪。

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark.

每个人都是道德的铸造者。

"Capitalist realism insists on treating mental health as if it were a natural fact, like weather (and, incidentally, it is no coincidence that the mental health of so many deteriorates during the winter months)."

The real difficulty lies not in devising new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.