每个人都渴望的痴迷：‘爱’。人们认为坠入爱河会使自己完整？灵魂的柏拉图式结合？我不这么认为。我认为你在开始之前就是完整的。而爱使你破碎。你本是完整的，然后你被裂开。
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.
性格是一个人习惯的总和。
Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity of the real world” is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.
领导力关乎留下遗产，而不仅仅是资产负债表。
最好的故事是那些能让你内心深处有所感触的故事。
The historian’s task is to bring the dead to life.