苦难！我们所有美好的品质、生命中的价值都归功于它；我们因它而怜悯，因它而勇敢，因它而拥有所有美德。

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Adapt, react, re-adapt, act.

我年纪越大，越发现先做重要的事情这一古老规则的智慧——这个过程通常可以把最复杂的人类问题简化为可以处理的规模。