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.

对确定性的追求阻碍了对意义的探寻。不确定性是促使人发挥潜能的条件。

"We are all of us made by what we have lost as much as what we have gained."

追求知识不仅是心灵的旅程，也是心灵的旅程。

"文学的力量在于它能够揭示人性的复杂性，而不仅仅是描述事件。"