Understanding is but the sum of misunderstandings.
No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant.
Things can be seen better in the darkness," he said, as if he had just seen into her mind. "But the longer you spend in the dark, the harder it becomes to return to the world aboveground where the light is
It's the real world, full of gaps and inconsistencies and anticlimaxes.
It was a short one-paragraph item in the morning edition.
People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.