Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.

How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.

People die when curiosity goes.

Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.