看到Frank和Dwayne在海边的对话，想起《海上钢琴师》中1900夜里到大厅弹琴，结果被告知：all of this  is entirely against the regulations. 结果脸上还留着黑色煤渣的小孩只是回应了一句：fuck the regulations.

Frank: Sometimes I just wish I could go to sleep till I was 18 and skip all this crap. High school and everything, just skip it.

[Marcel Proust] French write, total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he gets down to the end of his life and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, those were the best years of his life cause they made who he was. All the years he's happy, you know, total waste, didn't learn a thing. So if you sleep until you're 18, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean, high school, those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that.

Dwayne: You know what, fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. You know, school, then college, then work, fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I wanna fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest.

Frank所说的suffering,其实就是所谓的灵魂的黑夜（the dark night of the soul）。西方许多哲人都说过，不必抵触“灵魂的黑夜”，相反拥抱它，当你做到全然拥抱“灵魂的黑夜”时，它便给你巨大的能量。村上春树的小说常写到，男主人公有时会潜入井底一段时间，而当他们从井底从来的时候，他们身上就多了一些不可思议的能量。（见武志红《心灵的七种兵器》自序）