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.

文学是对抗教条的最有力解药。

臣民的政治自由是每个人对自己安全感的平静心态。

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

I'm just trying to be honest with myself and with the people around me.

Sustainability isn't just a goal; it's a responsibility we all share.

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.