“Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
“Failing to grapple with complexity actually turns out to be a pretty bad life strategy.”
“It's a quiet revolution begun by ordinary people with the stuff of our daily lives.”
“We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. ”
“Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn’t be about the either/or. We’re capable of more than that, you know?”
“Poetic spirits didn't need stuff like mathematics; math eroded you and made you ordinary.”