“An interesting life," Yingling told me, "is one filled with controversial successes punctuated by occasional and spectacular failures.”

“Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity.”

“... both had let him feel that interesting failures may be worth more in the end than dull successes...”

“The Vagabond one told me what that clover symbol means. He said it represents the four primary roads you can take in life: happiness, hatred, success, and failure. They are balanced shoices, always intertwined with each other, and whichever of the four paths you take will lead you down another.”

“Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate resposne to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”

“No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.”