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.

Adventure should be 80 percent planning and 20 percent sheer audacity.

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult — if you don’t lose it.

成功的关键是走进商店，听听员工们怎么说。让每个人都参与进来是非常重要的。我们最好的想法来自店员和库存员。

El arte es la única manera de escapar sin dejar de estar.

The act of writing is an act of courage.