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.

"To write is to embark on a journey without knowing the destination."

美好的人生是由爱所激励，由知识所引导的。

"Language is not just a tool for communication, but a bridge to the soul."

市场总是在变化，你的策略也应该如此。

"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."

数学是一门活生生的学科，随着新的思想和发现不断演变。