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 able to love, to share, to go 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.

释义：如果人与人之间的关系是建立在利益之上的，那么一旦利益消失，两人的关系也会变得疏远。

创作的行为是一种魔法的行为。

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

Every seed planted today is an investment in tomorrow's food supply.

"The slow cancellation of the future has been accompanied by a deflation of expectations."