“Life can be at its cruelest with love and dreams. But of course they keep most of us going.”

“People spend half of their free time drinking alcohol and the other half watching totally sober people on television. And they want to be those people, live those lives. Ever wondered why we rarely...”

“He was regarded merely as an eccentric employee of indifferent merit, and his post of deputy chief clerk was the highest he would ever reach. Well aware of this, he made it a rule never to show any...”

“Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.”

“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.”

“The crowd often expects a repeat of the old and well-known traditions. In your quest to innovate and pursue your dreams, ignore the crowd.”