Part of what you must learn is how to handle mistakes and new facts that change the odds.Life, in part, is like a poker game wherein you have to learn to quit sometimes when holding a much-loved hand.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

我不是主人，我是奴隶。

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 capable of love, of sharing, of going 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.