“Nothing is perfect. Therefore, being perfect is being nothing… and that's a great way to lose weight.”

“Nothing in life has any business being perfect.”

“The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.”

“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists”

“Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great ever came out of imitations. The thing that is really hard and really amazing is to give up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”

“Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal inexactitude which is the mysterious inmost quality of Being”