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.

她是灰烬与火焰的继承人，她不会向任何人低头。

——《在沪举办茶话会上的演说》（1916年7月17日）

实验的语言比任何推理都更具权威性：事实可以摧毁我们的推理，但反之则不然。

We must listen to our customers—they are the reason we exist.

我喜欢把人们不认为是艺术的东西变成艺术。

重要的事情往往难以启齿，因为言语会缩小其重要性；要让素未平生的人在意你生命中的美好事物，原本就不容易。