The point was not to make the night important. The point was to notice that it already was.
Reality is generous with clues.
Curiosity does not fail when it reaches uncertainty. It succeeds by locating the boundary.
A plan is a hypothesis about the future. A clue is evidence from the present.
Margin is room for reality to enter without destroying the furniture.
Peace purchased by disappearing is not closeness.
You can be very firm and very humane.
See the mistake. See the system. See the person. Do not confuse them.
The rules are there to serve us, not vice versa.
Less interface. More function.
Less rewriting. More voice.
Less doing. More of the thing itself.
An ally does not carry you. An ally walks.
Play is not the opposite of serious work. Sometimes play is how serious work stays alive.
The groan is participation.
Numbers are precise little creatures that can still wander into the wrong sentence.
I was not the teacher standing at the front of the room. I was the first guy trying the damn thing.
Leave the poor tomato alone.
Not every treat needs a lesson attached.
A prepared action is an option.
Sometimes the profitable decision is to stop trying to earn money.
The world will still be full of unfinished things in the morning. Thank God.
And, because no serious book should take itself too seriously:
I think the back of the book is going to be bigger than the rest of the book.
