I want to be a tree, not because trees don't speak, but because trees don't lie.

Silence is a language, it speaks louder than any words.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

我认为能够自嘲并且不过于认真对待自己是非常重要的。

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.

一本好书的标准在于它能在多大程度上扰乱和困扰读者。