爱意味着向消极和积极同时敞开自己——向悲伤、痛苦和失望敞开，也向快乐、满足和我们此前未知的意识强度敞开。
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. And which values? Even when they do not panic, men often sense that older ways of feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of moral stasis.
The telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
Every book is a journey, and every journey is a book.