Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.

Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.

A crisis unmasks everyone.

Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.