“Life is full of little surprises.
Time travel is full of big ones.”

“A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.”

“The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.”

“You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.”

“The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises.”

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”

“Life is only lived full-time by women with children.”

“The world is not our imagination but our nightmare, full of inconceivable surprises.”

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”

“Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky”