Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible， rather aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."