If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out.

I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

For the first time in his life, he stopped worrying about results, and as a consequence the terms “success” and “failure” had suddenly lost their meaning for him. The true purpose of art was not to create beautiful objects, he discovered. It was a method of understanding, a way of penetrating the world and finding one’s place in it, and whatever aesthetic qualities an individual canvas might have were almost an incidental by-product of the effort to engage oneself in this struggle, to enter into the thick of things.

It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not.

Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father would sit down beside us in the semi-dark and read from a book of fairy tales.