"The power of science fiction is that it can make the impossible seem possible."

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

真正的文学不仅仅是讲述故事，而是通过故事揭示人性的复杂性。

股市在短期内是投票机，在长期内是称重机。

If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

At twenty-one, I was a divorced single mother. At thirty, I was struggling to feed my children. At forty, I was starting over in a new country. At fifty, I was rebuilding my career. At sixty, I walked the runway at Fashion Week. Life begins at every age—if you dare to make a plan.

Everything is possible, and nothing is given.

只有那些心智极其脆弱的人才会拒绝受文学和诗歌的影响。

未来就是永恒再加一天。