记忆是我们不断告诉自己我们的故事的方式——并且告诉别人一个稍微不同版本的故事。

"The poet's job is to pay attention, then to pay attention to what they've paid attention to."

It is therefore obvious that...

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.