The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

The sea is a metaphor for everything: life, death, the unknown.

In the end, all we have are the stories we tell ourselves.

我为孩子们写作，因为我曾经是一个需要书籍的孩子。

好的设计是解决问题，而不仅仅是让事物看起来好看。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.