Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.

The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

You can't believe everything you read.

It is not always the job of people shouting outside impressive buildings to solve problems. It is often the job of the people inside, who have paper, pens, desks, and an impressive view.

Oftentimes. when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.