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.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

保持虚心才能了解实情，保持冷静才能判断行动是否正确

我对扮演英雄不感兴趣。我对扮演人类感兴趣。

To be a writer is to be a perpetual student of life.

The act of painting is an act of liberation.

创造的行为是一种抵抗的行为。

She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one.