"We are all the sum of our memories, and yet we remember so little."

The city is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places.

The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary.

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.