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.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher， the brewer， or the baker that we expect our dinner， but from their regard to their own interest.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

我们所理解的唯一存在就是感知事物的存在。