Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.

Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.

The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.