Mental life is fundamentally about adjustment to environment.

小说让我们能够讲述那些对非虚构作品来说太过滑溜的真相。

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

The key to successful filmmaking is to never lose sight of the story you're trying to tell.

定理不是偶然发现的。

I'm not a person who gives up on my voice.

I never look back, I just look forward.