The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Nothing is more powerful than will, and nothing is more important than determination.

解释：处在有利的地位上想到道义，处在困难之中想到保持纯正。

"The past is always present in our stories, shaping the way we see the future."

只凭一句赞美的话我就可以充实地活上两个月。

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.