“Things that we do without knowing why are we doing them are usually the best things that we do.”

“Sometimes we do not do things that we wish to do, so others will not know that we wish to do them.”

“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”

“We know people by their stories: their history, their habits, their secrets, their triumphs and failures. We know them by what they do. We want to know mountains too, but they’ve got no story. So we do the next best thing. We throw ourselves onto them and make the stories happen.”

“Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more.”

“What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.”