The secondary rules are those that provide for the creation, alteration, and extinction of primary rules.

You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality.

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.

"History is not just about events, but about the people who lived through them."

The only thing that is constant is change.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.

The essence of business is to solve problems, not create them.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.