The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

不是因为某些事物难以发现，我们才不去寻找；而是因为我们不去寻找，它们才显得难以发现。

关于神，我不知道他们是否存在，也不知道他们的形态是什么样子的；因为有许多事情阻碍了确切的知识，包括事物的晦涩和人类生命的短暂。

"We are all searching for something, but we don't always know what it is. Sometimes it's a person, sometimes it's a place, and sometimes it's just a feeling."

释义：圆的器物容易滚动，而方的器物则易于停止，这是器物的差异；金属刚硬而水则柔弱，这是它们的物性不同。