“Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.”

“Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.”

“andAt the core of this desire is the belief that everything can be perfect.”

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”

“Practice makes perfect, but nobody's perfect, so why practice?”

“Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.”

“Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.”

“All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.”

“How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes… dies.”

“Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.”