每个人都想要的唯一痴迷：'爱'。人们以为坠入爱河能使自己完整？柏拉图式的灵魂结合？我不这么认为。我认为你在开始之前就是完整的。而爱会把你打碎。你本是完整的，然后被爱劈开。
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.
The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture.
创造力需要勇气。
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
You have to be willing to work hard and stay focused on your goals.
Your work begins, work that will not be always joyful to you, labor that may not always fulfill you and days that will seem like one damn thing after the other.