“People aren't tidy creations to be stacked neatly in the Tupperware or poured in premeasured quantities from a box into the Cuisinart with no spills; everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess.”
“...everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess...the scattered moments of kinship we feel with others are, when reduced to their most basic elements, accidental discoveries of kinship with ourselves. ”
“I guess they needed a maze in Japan, where everything's neat and tidy. In America everybody's already wandering around lost.”
“What a mess. Truths are messy and lies are messy, and I don’t care what Da said, it’s impossible to cut a person into pielike pieces, neat and tidy.”
“..chaos is the neighbour of God: but everything's usually neat and tidy in hell...”
“A creative mess is better than idle tidiness.”