The first 50 years are for learning, and the second 50 years are for living. Life just begins when you're in your 50s.

The older people carry the music in their body, in their mind. If they die, then that sound may be gone forever.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

I can't say no. But I did say, "OK. But have another song just in case."

For (Levi) Grossman, no books feel more like home than C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia, which provide the template for what he likes to read—and how he wants to write.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

I hate diversity workshops. “Real change comes from having enough comfort to be really honest and say something very uncomfortable.

Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps.