Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

I don't understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can't they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What's wrong with that idea?

That which is around me does not affect my mood; my mood affects that which is around me.

In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.

Very gently. Like there are eggshells on your pedals, and you don’t want to break them. That’s how you drive in the rain.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.