“What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing?”

“Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?”

“The most important thing we learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”

“The most important thing we ever learn at school is the fact that the most important things can't be learned at school.”

“This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: 'At the time, no one knew what was coming.”

“Some things are forgotten, some things disappear, some things die.”

“The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like opening one’s eyes without seeing anything.”