The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it.

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be expelled."

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn’t work like I thought it did. We don’t remember, we rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. To remember is to remake, to reimagine."

智者从敌人那里学到的比愚者从朋友那里学到的还要多。