"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic."
写作是我们最接近真正魔法的东西。
I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.
一个女人能为她的孩子做的最重要的事情就是爱他们的父亲。