If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, "Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me."

感知是一个主动的过程，大脑从感官输入中构建意义。

作家就是花多年耐心探索内心第二个自我的人。