What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

L'amour, c'est la seule passion qui se paye d'une monnaie qu'elle fabrique elle-même.

There is no love that’s so right as admiration-based love, and that love should include the instructive dead. Somehow, I got that idea and I lived with it all my life and it’s been very very useful to me.

The distance between two cultures is where the most interesting things happen.

在危机时刻，透明度建立信任。