Here's an insight that I've had about success: You can't be successful at everything. We hear a lot of talk about work-life balance. Nonsense. You can't have it all. You can't. So any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on, where the element of loss is. And I think any wise life will accept, as I say, that there is going to be an element where we're not succeeding.

"I wanted to write a book that was funny, but also made people think."

有时候，治愈的唯一方法是先原谅自己。

我听说楚地有一只神龟，已死三千年了，楚王用布包好，再用竹编把它装着，藏在庙堂之上。这龟，宁愿死了尊贵地保留着骸骨呢，还是宁愿活着在泥水中摇曳着尾巴？

I think one’s art goes as far and as deep as one’s love goes.

因此，国家并非自古以来就存在。曾经有一些社会没有国家，对国家或国家权力毫无概念。在一定的经济发展阶段，这必然与社会分裂成阶级有关，国家变成了一种必要性。