生活是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

In the world of computing, the boundary between the possible and the impossible is often defined by the algorithms we can devise.

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 true writer is always an outsider, even in his own country.

I'm obsessed with revolution, I'm obsessed with authenticity.

La douleur est une porte ouverte sur quelque chose de plus grand qu'elle-même.