The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.