The writer's life is a life of sentences.

法律的概念不是一个事物的概念，而是一个复杂的社会实践的概念。

So given a Time Turner, I would tell my 21-year-old self that personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a check-list of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications, your CV, are not your life, though you will meet many people of my age and older who confuse the two. Life is difficult, and complicated, and beyond anyone’s total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes.

The beauty of cinema is that it transcends language and culture, connecting us all.

You have to be willing to sacrifice who you are for who you will become.

"History is not the past—it is the method we have evolved of organizing our ignorance of the past."

我们生来都具备某种程度的天赋。如何利用它取决于我们自己。

我们在内心做的事会改变外在的现实。