And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

我了解到你不可能取悦每个人，这没关系。

"We are all apprentices in a craft where no one becomes a master."

作家是一个总是试图推动语言的边界，探索语言的极限，看看语言能做什么的人。