1922年，菲茨杰拉德以1000美元将《本杰明·巴顿奇事》卖给了COLLIERS杂志，后来被收入短篇小说集《爵士时代故事集》中出版，《本杰明·巴顿奇事》以魔幻现实主义手法写成，更多的是以奇幻手法对现实的批判和嘲讽。大卫·芬奇的电影作品充满阴沉、忧郁、哀伤的情调。
《返老还童》台词
1. You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went，you can curse the fates but when it comes to the end，you have to let go..........
你可以像疯狗那样对周围的一切愤愤不平，你可以诅咒你的命运，但是等到最后一刻到了之时，你只能轻轻放手。— —《返老还童》
2.You never know what's coming for you!
你永远也不清楚... 接下来会发生什么
3.We're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?
“我们注定要失去我们所爱的人，要不然我们怎么知道他们对我们有多么的重要。”
4.When you are not getting older, but more and more young, it will go through all the people you love than you die. We are doomed to lose our loved one, or else how can they know for us is so important? This is also the significance of losing it.
当你不是在变老，而是越来越年轻，就必定要经历所有你爱的人都比你先死去。我们注定要失去我们所爱的人，不然又如何知道他们对我们来说是如此的重要呢?这也是失去的意义吧。
5.Everyone to some extent, all have a different understanding, but we finally go the same place, but just a different path。
每个人在某种程度上都对自己有不同的认识，但是我们最后都会去往同一个地方，只是走的路不同罢了
6.For what it's worth, it's never too late, or in my case, too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There's no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.
一件事无论太晚或者对于我来说太早，都不会阻拦你成为你想成为的那个人，这个过程没有时间的期限，只要你想，随时都可以开始，要改变或者保留原状都无所谓，做事本不应该有所束缚，我们可以办好这件事却也可以把它搞砸，但我希望最终你能成为你想成为的人。我希望你有时能驻足于这个令你感到惊叹的世界，体会你从未有过的感觉。我希望你能见到其他与你观点不同的人们。我希望你能有一个值得自豪的.人生。如果你想象的生活不一样，我希望你能有勇气重新启程。
7. Plenty times you be alone. You different like us, it's gonna be that way. But I tell you a little secret. Fat people,skinny people, tall people, white people... they just as alone as us... But they scaredshitless... Not a thing wrong with being alone... no sir...
无论什么肤色，什么体型，人们都是孤独的。但可怕的不是孤独，而是惧怕孤独。其实孤独没什么不好，真的。
8.I'm blind in the one eye...I can't hardly hear...I get twitches and shakes out of nowhere... I lose my line of thought... but you know what... God keeps reminding me I'm lucky to be alive...
当我瞎了一个眼睛，几乎听不见晨间喧嚣，动不动就抽搐，总是丢三落四，上帝却依然扔下闪电来提醒我，能够活着已经是桩幸运的事了。
9.It isn't how well you play, it's how you feel about what you're playing...
无所谓你弹奏得怎样，重要的是你弹琴时的感受…………?
10. I kept waiting, thinking I would do something to change my circumstance... Do something... But I never did... It's an awful waste, you can never get it back... wasted time...mply say goodbye... Those are the rules...
我一直等着，等着自己的状况变好，但我自己从未做过什么，人生就这么平白无辜地浪费了。