There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

No indeed. I will curse the stars and go down fighting. But it will still have been a wonderful thing, to cross the mist.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the...

Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself – a dead leaf, a cloud –...

I know. You do care. But inside the framework of a project. Right now it’s your studies. Later it’ll be roads and bridges. But people around you—their lives go on outside the framework. They’re not...

Love is curiosity sometimes. Concentrated wondering about the other one.

I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any...

Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain it, and losing it, one will grieve.

If you don’t, you have not waited to find out.