Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memories can never fade.

It's like a kid standing at the window watching the rain.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?

..finally he was just another ant, working and working until he died without meaning.

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly’s wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.