The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

In language， there is no one-to-one correspondence between words and the things they refer to.

Every piece of leather tells a story; our job is to make it a good one.

The best way to solve a problem is to think about it in a different way.

To write is to confront the ghosts of our past, to give them a voice, and perhaps, to set them free.