“And we are not mountaintop sages who can live by consuming mist.”

“Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.”

“We no longer live life. We consume it.”

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”

“We do not live so that we can eat, nor do we just eat so that we can live. Life is worth living in and of itself. Life cannot be satisfied when it is lived out as a consuming entity. When it is filled by that which satisfies a hunger that is both physical and spiritual in a mutuality that sustains both without violation of either, only then can life be truly fulfilling.”

“Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.”