So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

在艺术领域，沉默比言语更有力量。

读报或者看电视新闻时，总是难免碰上一个又一个的为社会问题的解决提供了新的解决方案的人。

文学是文字的艺术，而文字是思想的工具。

The only way to escape the past is to confront it.

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, but you do have some say in who hurts you."