Only Numbers. Pure math. You have to accustom yourself to thinking that way.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.