is what this session is about, which is called simplicity.

常に簡素さに関して考えています

And almost, I would almost call it being simple-minded,

簡潔さとは 単純な性格を指すように思いますが

but in the best sense of the word.

その言葉が持つ良い意味でとらえてください

I'm trying to figure out two very simple things:

私が追求するのは 非常に単純な二つの事

how to live and how to die, period.

いかに生きて いかに死ぬか

That's all I'm trying to do, all day long.

一日中それしか考えていません

And I'm also trying to have some meals, and have some snacks,

他にも食事をしたり おやつをつまんだり

and, you know, and yell at my children, and do all the normal things

子どもに大声を上げたり 普通のことをやって

that keep you grounded.

しっかりしていなくちゃいけません

So, I was fortunate enough to be born a very dreamy child.

私は幸運にも夢見る少女として生まれました

My older sister was busy torturing my parents,

姉は両親に手を焼かせていたし

and they were busy torturing her.

両親も姉のことで手いっぱいだったので

I was lucky enough to be completely ignored,

幸運にも 私は完全にほったらかしにされていました

which is a fabulous thing, actually, I want to tell you.

なんとも ありがたいことです

So, I was able to completely daydream my way through my life.

おかげで ずっと空想にふけっていることができ

And I finally daydreamed my way into NYU, at a very good time, in 1967,

1967年という良い時期に 夢見がちなままニューヨーク大学に入学しました

where I met a man who was trying to blow up the math building of NYU.

そこでニューヨーク大学の数学科の建物を爆破しようとした男と出会い

And I was writing terrible poetry and knitting sweaters for him.

彼にセンスのない詩を書いたり セーターを編んだりしました

And feminists hated us, and the whole thing was wretched

フェミニストは私たちを嫌って 最初から終わりまで全てが

from beginning to end.

悲惨でした

But I kept writing bad poetry, and he didn't blow up the math building,

でも私は詩を書き続け 彼は爆破計画を実行せずに

but he went to Cuba.

キューバへ行ってしまいました

But I gave him the money, because I was from Riverdale

でも彼にはお金をあげました

so I had more money than he did.

恵まれた環境にいたのでね

(Laughter)

（笑）

And that was a good thing to help, you know, the cause.

彼の使命を助けるには良かったのですが

But, then he came back, and things happened,

彼が帰って来て 事の成り行きが変わりました

and I decided I really hated my writing,

私は自分の文章が嫌になったのです

that it was awful, awful, purple prose.

あまりにも表現が華やか過ぎて ひどい作品でした

And I decided that I wanted to tell --

それでもやっぱり私は

but I still wanted to tell a narrative story

物語を書きたかったのです

and I still wanted to tell my stories.

自分の物語というやつね

So I decided that I would start to draw. How hard could that be?

それで絵を描く事にしました　簡単でしょう

And so what happened was that I started

それで何をしたかと言うと 私は

just becoming an editorial illustrator through, you know,

編集イラストレーターになりました

sheer whatever, sheer ignorance.

まったくの無知から始めたんです

And we started a studio.

私たちはスタジオを開きました

Well, Tibor really started the studio, called M&Co.

M&Company というスタジオです

And the premise of M&Co was, we don't know anything,

M&Companyは専門知識は何もないけど

but that's all right, we're going to do it anyway.

とにかくやってみましょう というものでした

And as a matter of fact, it's better not to know anything,

知らないほうがいい事もあります

because if you know too much, you're stymied.

知りすぎていて困る事もありますからね

So, the premise in the studio was,

ですから 我々のスタートは

there are no boundaries, there is no fear.

境界線も恐怖も無い というものでした

And I -- and my full-time job, I landed the best job on Earth,

そして私はこの世で最高の仕事にありつけたのです

was to daydream, and to actually come up with absurd ideas

それは空想して おかしな考えを思いつく事

that -- fortunately, there were enough people there,

幸運にもチームを組むだけの

and it was a team, it was a collective,

十分な人がいて

it was not just me coming up with crazy ideas.

他にも馬鹿げた考えの人はいましたが

But the point was that I was there as myself, as a dreamer.

でも私は空想家として私自身でいました

And so some of the things -- I mean, it was a long history of M&Co,

M&Companyは長いこと

and clearly we also needed to make some money,

明らかに利益を上げなければならず

so we decided we would create a series of products.

さまざまな商品をつくることにしました

And some of the watches there,

ここに見える時計は

attempting to be beautiful and humorous --

美しさとユーモアを出そうと努力しています

maybe not attempting, hopefully succeeding.

努力というより 成功を狙っているのかも

That to be able to talk about content,

内容について話し

to break apart what you normally expect, to use humor and surprise,

通念をとっぱらって ユーモアや驚き

elegance and humanity in your work was really important to us.

上品さや人間味を取り入れることを優先したのです

It was a very high, it was a very impersonal time in design

その頃のデザインは人間味のない時代で

and we wanted to say, the content is what's important,

私たちが言いたかったのは

not the package, not the wrapping.

内容が大事だということ

You really have to be journalists, you have to be inventors,

ジャーナリストや発明家になる必要があり

you have to use your imagination more importantly than anything.

何よりも大事なのは想像力を使う事です

So, the good news is that I have a dog

私には飼い犬がいます

and, though I don't know if I believe in luck --

私は運を信じるかはわかりませんし

I don't know what I believe in, it's a very complicated question,

何を信じているのかも複雑すぎてわかりませんが

but I do know that before I go away, I crank his tail seven times.

私は旅に出る前に 愛犬のしっぽを７回ぐるぐる回します

So, whenever he sees a suitcase in the house,

いつも誰かが旅行に出かける家で

because everybody's always, you know, leaving,

みんながしっぽをぐるぐる回すものだから

they're always cranking this wonderful dog's tail,

家の中でスーツケースが目に入ると

and he runs to the other room.

犬は他の部屋へ行ってしまいます

But I am able to make the transition from working for children and --

私は子ども向けの本も 大人向けの本も

from working for adults to children, and back and forth,

どちらも書けます

because, you know, I can say that I'm immature,

なぜなら ある意味で

and in a way, that's true.

私は大人になっていないからです

I don't really -- I mean, I could tell you that I didn't understand,

自慢にはなりませんが 打ち明けてしまうと

I'm not proud of it, but I didn't understand

今回のTEDで聴いた講演の

let's say 95 percent of the talks at this conference.

95％は理解できませんでした

But I have been taking beautiful notes of drawings

でも素晴らしい絵を描いたんです

and I have a gorgeous onion from Murray Gell-Mann's talk.

ゲルマンの講演では 見事な玉ねぎを描けたし

And I have a beautiful page of doodles from Jonathan Woodham's talk.

ウッダムの講演でも 様々な絵を描けました

So, good things come out of, you know, incomprehension --

理解できないことからも 良い事は生まれるのです

(Laughter)

（笑）

-- which I will do a painting of, and then it will end up in my work.

描いた絵は 後に私の作品になります

So, I'm open to the possibilities of not knowing

ですから 知らなかった内容も受け入れて

and finding out something new.

新しいものを生み出しています

So, in writing for children, it seems simple, and it is.

子ども向けの本を書くのは見た目どおり簡単です

You have to condense a story into 32 pages, usually.

たいてい 物語を32ページに集約しなくてはいけません

And what you have to do is, you really have to edit down to what you want to say.

大切なのは伝えたい内容だけに編集すること

And hopefully, you're not talking down to kids

そして子どもを見下すような言い方はせず

and you're not talking in such a way that you,

一度読んだら おしまい というような

you know, couldn't stand reading it after one time.

語りにはしないことです

So, I hopefully am writing, you know,

ですから おそらく私の書く本は

books that are good for children and for adults.

誰もが楽しめる本です

But the painting reflects --

でも私が描く絵は

I don't think differently for children than I do for adults.

子どもと大人と対象に関わらず

I try to use the same kind of imagination, the same kind of whimsy,

想像力も 風変わりなアイデアも

the same kind of love of language.

言葉に対する愛情も同じように使っています

So, you know, and I have lots of wonderful-looking friends.

私の友人はかっこいい人が多く

This is Andrew Gatz, and he walked in through the door and I said,

アンドリュー ギャッツが訪れてきた時は

"You! Sit down there." You know, I take lots of photos.

座ってもらって 写真をたくさん撮りました

And the Bertoia chair in the background is my favorite chair.

後ろにあるのはお気に入りの椅子

So, I get to put in all of the things that I love.

好きなものは絵に取り入れます

Hopefully, a dialog between adults and children will happen on many different levels,

大人と子どもの会話が いろいろなレベルで繰り広げられるでしょうし

and hopefully different kinds of humor will evolve.

様々なユーモアも生まれると思います

And the books are really journals of my life.

本とは私の人生の日記です

I never -- I don't like plots.

構想をたてるのは好きではありません

I don't know what a plot means.

あらすじという意味が私にはわかりません

I can't stand the idea of anything that starts in the beginning,

始まり 中間 終わりという流れに

you know, beginning, middle and end. It really scares me,

耐えられないんです

because my life is too random and too confused,

なぜなら私の人生自体が行き当たりばったりで ごちゃごちゃしていて

and I enjoy it that way.

それを楽しんでいるからです

But anyway, so we were in Venice,

さて 私たちがベネチアにいたときのことです

and this is our room. And I had this dream

これは私たちの部屋で こんな夢を見ました

that I was wearing this fantastic green gown,

私が素敵な緑のガウンを着ていて

and I was looking out the window,

外を眺めています

and it was really a beautiful thing.

素敵なイメージだったので

And so, I was able to put that into this story, which is an alphabet,

アルファベットの話の中に取り入れました

and hopefully go on to something else.

違ったものへと変化していくと思います

The letter C had other things in it.

Cのページには違う事を書いてあります

I was fortunate also, to meet the man who's sitting on the bed,

ベッドに座っている男性に会えたのも幸いでした

though I gave him hair over here and he doesn't have hair.

彼には髪の毛があるように描きました

Well, he has some hair but -- well, he used to have hair.

髪の毛が薄い人なんでね

And with him, I was able to do a project that was really fantastic.

彼と取り組んだ素晴らしい企画があります

I work for the New Yorker, and I do covers, and 9/11 happened

私はニューヨーカー誌の表紙を担当しているのですが 同時多発テロが起こり

and it was, you know, a complete and utter end of the world as we knew it.

世界の完全なる終わりとでも言うような状況でした

And Rick and I were on our way to a party in the Bronx,

彼とパーティに行くのに ブロンクスに向かっていたとき

and somebody said Bronxistan,

ある人が ブロンキスタンと言い

and somebody said Ferreristan,

ある人はファレリスタンと言いました

and we came up with this New Yorker cover,

そこからニューヨーカー誌の この表紙が生まれました

which we were able to -- we didn't know what we were doing.

その時はよくわからなかったけれど

We weren't trying to be funny, we weren't trying to be --

ふざけていたのではありません

well, we were trying to be funny actually, that's not true.

実はね 面白がっていたの

We hoped we'd be funny, but we didn't know it would be a cover,

面白いだろうって思ったけど 表紙になるとは知らなかったんです

and we didn't know that that image, at the moment that it happened,

当初は この絵がたくさんの人に

would be something that would be so wonderful for a lot of people.

気に入られるとは思いもしませんでした

And it really became the -- I don't know, you know,

ここに書いてある内容を見て

it was one of those moments people started laughing at what was going on.

たくさんの人の笑いをとれたんです

And from, you know, Fattushis, to Taxistan to, you know,

ファットシとかタクシスタンなんて感じに 架空の

for the Fashtoonks, Botoxia, Pashmina, Khlintunisia, you know,

人種を作り上げて名前をつけました

we were able to take the city

この街を使って

and make fun of this completely foreign, who are -- what's going on over here?

完全に異国であるものを笑いにしました

Who are these people? What are these tribes?

他にはどんな人がいるの？ってね

And David Remnick, who was really wonderful about it,

この案に乗り気だったデイビッド レムニックは

had one problem. He didn't like Al Zheimers,

アルツハイマーは アルツハイマー病の人に対して失礼なので

because he thought it would insult people with Alzheimer's.

やめたほうがいいと言いました

But you know, we said, "David, who's going to know?

“彼らが気がつくと思う？” と彼に言いました

They're not."

気づくはずないわよ

(Laughter)

（笑）

So it stayed in, and it was, and, you know, it was a good thing.

それで結局 この案を使う事にしました

You know, in the course of my life, I never know what's going to happen

私の人生において 何が起こるかなんてわかりません

and that's kind of the beauty part.

そこがいいんですよね

And we were on Cape Cod, a place, obviously, of great inspiration,

インスピレーションを得るには最高の場所であるケープコッドで

and I picked up this book, "The Elements of Style," at a yard sale.

ヤードセールに行き 英語文章作法の本を見つけました

And I didn't -- and I'd never used it in school,

学生時代に使った事はありませんでした

because I was too busy writing poems, and flunking out,

詩を書いてばかりで勉強をせず

and I don't know what, sitting in cafes.

カフェにいりびたっていたからです

But I picked it up and I started reading it and I thought, this book is amazing.

でも読み始めてみると この本の素晴らしいこと！

I said, people should know about this book.

この本の存在は知るべきよ

(Laughter)

（笑）

So I decided it needed a few -- it needed a lift, it needed a few illustrations.

この本に少しイラストがあれば もっと良くなると思ったので

And basically, I called the, you know, I convinced the White Estate,

出版社に電話をして説得して

and what an intersection of like, you know,

ポーランド系ユダヤ人や

Polish Jew, you know, main WASP family. Here I am, saying,

アングロサクソン系白人家族のような人が入り混じる中 私が

I'd like to do something to this book.

この本に何かしたいと言うと

And they said yes, and they left me completely alone,

承知してくれて 私に任せてくれました

which was a gorgeous, wonderful thing.

本当に素晴らしいことでした

And I took the examples that they gave,

彼らから見本をもらって

and just did 56 paintings, basically.

56枚の絵を描きました

So, this is, I don't know if you can read this.

ここには こう書いてあります

"Well, Susan, this is a fine mess you are in."

“スーザン 窮地に入り込んでしまったね”

And when you're dealing with grammar,

文法を扱うというのは

which is, you know, incredibly dry,

非常に無味乾燥なものですが

E.B. White wrote such wonderful, whimsical -- and actually, Strunk --

ストランク氏が素晴らしいものを書きました

and then you come to the rules and, you know,

そして文法規則のページです

there are lots of grammar things. "Do you mind me asking a question?

文法に関する表記がたくさんあります

Do you mind my asking a question?"

meをmyに変えたニュアンスなんかもね

"Would, could, should, or would, should, could."

助動詞の挿絵には

And "would" is Coco Chanel's lover, "should" is Edith Sitwell,

ココ シャネルの愛人やエディス シットウェル

and "could" is an August Sander subject.

オーガスト サンダーを用いています

And, "He noticed a large stain in the center of the rug."

“彼はじゅうたんのシミに気がついた”

(Laughter)

（笑）

So, there's a kind of British understatement, murder-mystery theme

表現が英国風の殺人推理ものの絵は

that I really love very much.

私のお気に入りです

And then, "Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand."

“わかりやすく曖昧となれ！　我々の理解できる方法で楽しい言葉となれ！”

E.B. White wrote us a number of rules,

ホワイト氏が書いた規則を見ると

which can either paralyze you and make you loathe him

無力にさせられるか

for the rest of time, or you can ignore them, which I do,

私のように やる気をなくしたり どうでもよくなって

or you can, I don't know what, you know, eat a sandwich.

サンドイッチを食べだしたりします

So, what I did when I was painting was I started singing,

私は絵を描きながら歌をうたいました

because I really adore singing,

私は歌が大好き

and I think that music is the highest form of all art.

音楽とはすべての芸術の頂点にあると思います

So, I commissioned a wonderful composer, Nico Muhly,

作曲家のニコ ミュリーに依頼して

who wrote nine songs using the text,

本文を使って９曲作曲してもらい

and we performed this fantastic evening of --

その曲を私たちが披露しました

he wrote music for both amateurs and professionals.

彼はアマチュアとプロの両方に向けて音楽を書き

I played the clattering teacup and the slinky

私がカップとおもちゃを使い

in the main reading room of the New York Public Library,

ニューヨーク公共図書館でコンサートをしました

where you're supposed to be very, very quiet,

普段は音を立ててはいけない場所で

and it was a phenomenally wonderful event,

とても素晴らしい催しを行いました

which we hopefully will do some more.

またやりたいと思っています

Who knows? The New York TimesSelect, the op-ed page,

ニューヨークタイムズの論評に

asked me to do a column, and they said, you can do whatever you want.

コラムを書きました　内容も任されていたので

So, once a month for the last year,

去年は月に一度

I've been doing a column called "The Principles of Uncertainty,"

「確信のなさの法則」と題したコラムを書きました

which, you know, I don't know who Heisenberg is,

ハイゼンベルグって誰か知りませんけど

but I know I can throw that around now. You know,

今となっては その言葉はわかります

it's the principles of uncertainty, so, you know.

不確定性原理ですよね

I'm going to read quickly -- and probably I'm going to edit some,

時間がないので省略しながら

because I don't have that much time left -- a few of the columns.

ちょっとだけ読んでみます

And basically, I was so, you know, it was so amusing,

面白かったのは 字数制限が気になって

because I said, "Well, how much space do I have?"

尋ねたら

And they said, "Well, you know, it's the Internet."

“インターネットだよ” と言われました

And I said, "Yes, but how much space do I have?"

“でも どれくらい使えるの？” と尋ねると

And they said, "It's unlimited, it's unlimited."

無制限だと言われました

OK. So, the first one I was very timid, and I'll begin.

一作目はとても控えめです　では読んでみます

"How can I tell you everything that is in my heart?

“私の心はどうやって明かせるの？

Impossible to begin. Enough. No. Begin with the hapless dodo."

始めることなど不可能　もう十分だ　不幸なドードーから始めなさい”

And I talk about the dodo, and how the dodo became extinct,

なぜドードーが絶滅してしまったのか という内容で

and then I talk about Spinoza.

次にスピノザについて話します

"As the last dodo was dying, Spinoza was looking for a rational explanation

“最後のドードーが死んでしまう時 スピノザは

for everything, called eudaemonia.

幸福主義の合理的な説明を探していた

And then he breathed his last, with loved ones around him,

そして最愛の人たちに囲まれ息を引き取った

and I know that he had chicken soup also, as his last meal."

彼が最後に食べたのはチキンスープ”

I happen to know it for a fact.

これは本当です

And then he died, and there was no more Spinoza. Extinct.

彼は亡くなり スピノザは死滅しました

And then, we don't have a stuffed Spinoza,

スピノザの剥製はありませんが

but we do have a stuffed Pavlov's dog,

パブロフの犬の剥製ならあります

and I visited him in the Museum of Hygiene in St. Petersburg, in Russia.