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 question I ask myself like almost every day is, 'Am I doing the most important thing I could be doing?'

The path to net-zero is not easy, but it is necessary for our survival.

我不是表演，我是奇观。

"In the act of writing, we confront our deepest fears and desires."

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."