独处的能力就是爱的能力。这对你来说可能看起来矛盾，但其实不是。这是一个存在的真理：只有那些能够独处的人才能爱，才能分享，才能深入另一个人的内心深处——而不占有对方，不依赖对方，不将对方物化，不对对方上瘾。
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 able to love, to share, to go 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.
每本小说的第一句话应该是：“相信我，这需要时间，但这里有秩序，非常微弱，非常人性化。”
Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew.
欧盟最大的问题在于它不是一个国家，却假装成一个国家。
Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
历史是一场我试图从中醒来的噩梦。