To love the plateau is to love what is most essential and enduring in your life.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

Take me! Well, not quite take me, love me now, take me eventually

I do not care what I labeled, as long as I am heard.

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

She's not wearing makeup so her face just looks like skin.

Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was Fang and he was giggling hysterically. For those of you just joining us, Fang doesn't giggle, esspecially hysterically.

I like to think I play rugby as it should be played - there are no yellow or red cards in my collection - but I cannot say I'm an angel.

I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.

I feel like I've been successful after being done with the film is when I see it, if I'm embarrassed, if I'm slightly mortified, and if I feel super-vulnerable, I think I did something.

Anybody who hacks into get documents is completely capable of manipulating them.