Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.

Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.