Yet I observed the frenzy of those who commuted into the city each day to toil in office towers, and I wondered why my life could be the way it was, and what I learned from it.

• 远离电视机、汽车、摩登的公寓，把自己同老朋友完全隔离之后，我看到了狂躁的人们每天冲进城市里的办公室里苦干，我开始奇怪为什么我的生活不一样，从中我学到了什么。