不一定是你我的母亲，而是一个理想母亲的想象，一个永远义无反顾的爱你，不在乎你是否功成名就的人，不幸地，大部分世人都不怀有这种母爱，大部分世人决定要花费多少时间，给于多少爱，不一定是浪漫的那种爱，虽然那也包括在内，世人所愿意给我们的关爱、尊重，取决于我们的社会地位。
Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.
心理学唯一有效的数据是受过训练的观察者的报告。
世界是一个复杂的地方，我试图在我的写作中反映这一点。
大脑是一个复杂的系统，我们才刚刚开始理解它是如何工作的。
I don’t follow trends. I set them.
We are all time travelers in the river of DNA.
爱上上帝是最伟大的浪漫；寻求祂是最伟大的冒险；找到祂是最伟大的人类成就。
"The power of literature lies in its ability to make us feel less alone."