Life

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.

Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn’t anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept—the world aged, moved forward, yet I . . . Didn’t.

To have a different life you have be a different person. You have to do what you haven't done. You have to become the person that fits that dream. But most of all, you have to realize that if you don't step into your story it becomes the moral of the story. Your inaction is a lesson you leave to your kids-- I was too afraid to change.

I always felt as if I'd been handed a cardboard box crammed full of monkeys. I'd take the monkeys out of the box one at a time, carefully brush off the dust, give them a pat on the bottom, and send them scurrying off into the fields. I never knew where they went from there.

I always assumed it owed more to the fact that he didn't like me.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

It dances on the air for a moment before it falls, too. A fresh gust of wind almost saves it, but a worker catches sight of it and lifts a tube up to suck the paper from the air, to suck the words from the sky.I'm sorry, Grandfather.

Because things are the way they are things will not stay the way they are.

Just run away from your problems if you want cause sometimes we need a time to think and cool down a bit before making a decision.

Suffering is sometimes cleansing,” said the man. His clothes were casual, but expensive. “It can purify.'“It can also fuck you up,” said Shadow.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

I was the walrus, but now I am John...And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life historical—a gripping account of accomplishment. Make life a mystery—a challenging, bold adventure. Make life heartfelt—an enduring, poetic romance. Whatever it is you make of your world, live the fairytale.

Both life and work were a great deal more rewarding when you didn't take them seriously.

He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.

Everyone gets forgotten because of Alzheimer's, ignored because of ignorance about oneself and replaced because of trying to stay in the same place.

The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.

It's you,” David says, “our queen with your crown, going into some body of water where we cannot follow you.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.