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.

最深刻的发现往往始于简单的观察。

我不喜欢被贴标签。我不是叛逆者，我不是顺从者，我不是任何那种人。我就是我。

La vie est une longue leçon d'humilité.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

强者救赎自己，圣人普度他人。

我相信每部电影都有自己的节奏和步调，找到这一点很重要。

人真正的故乡是童年。

如果你在小事上无原则，那么大事上一样没有原则。

The key to great storytelling is to find the universal truth in the specific.

一定要和笑点跟你一样的人结婚。

The novel is the only art form capable of fully representing human complexity.

胜利很重要，但真正重要的是你为达成目标所付出的努力。