“Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering.”

“Everything is in slow motion down there and silent. It could replace psychotherapy.”

“Motion at low Reynolds number is very majestic, slow, and regular.”

“What is happening in our country is a slow-motion coup d'état.”

“In Hollywood I would have found the last teapot and it would be falling off the shelf in slow motion and I would have dove and caught it and we would have walked away in slow motion with you know, hands in the air, high fiving each other.”

“Life is more than just steering a course around pain.”

“You crawl over the onrushing piano passages in slow motion. Your fingers are in ten little steel strait-jackets….”

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

“…life is not so much motion as an inventless repetition of motion.”

“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”