Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people or find a different room.

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

意识是生存策略上演的剧场。