“Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.”

“I bend but do not break.”

“One is forced to assume that ordinary people have the computational capabilities and statistical software of econometricians.”

“So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.”

“It is funnier to bend things than to break them.”

“Make it bend — trees are flexible, so they don’t snap. Scar it, give it a twisted branch — perfect trees don’t exist. Nothing is perfect. Flaws are interesting. Be the tree.”

“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.”

“Their closeness wouldn't break, but it would bend and stretch into a new shape.”

“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”

“Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend”