"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."

Expertise in any domain involves the automation of basic skills, freeing attention for higher-level aspects of performance.

制作一部好电影的关键是有一个好剧本。

The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.

Literature is the memory of humanity, and without it, we are lost.