“Most people would call me incompetent, clumsy, flawed...""A pearl is a flaw. A diamond is an accident of nature. In all of creation, there's nothing more precious than the unexpected deviation.”
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.”
“Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.”
“What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.”
“I am a flawed human being - a far more flawed human being than yourealize.”
“Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.”