然后
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.
You build your life around what you fear, and then you spend your life being afraid.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.
The greatest photographers are those who have learned to see the world as it is, and then to see it as it might be.
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.
Happiness comes from between. It is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait.
Literature is the art of turning chaos into order, and then questioning that order.
You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.