"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."

比开始某事并失败更糟糕的是根本不开始。

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."