Meaning lies as much in the mind of the reader as in the Haiku.

We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

. . . all meaning comes from analogies.

Many people believe that our lives end not when we die but when the very last person who knew us dies. Memory is part of it, yes, but I think it's much more than memory.

It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.

It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly figure out what's good or bad. It's an intimate mixture of rubbish and good ideas, and it's very hard to disentangle the two, because these are smart people; they're not stupid.