the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometimes there is a sudden and fierce squall. But I know that many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.