“When there is noise and crowds, there is trouble; when everything is silent and perfect, there is just perfection and nothing to fill the air.”

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

“The biblical system of punishment is just perfect. It's perfect and we are doing nothing similar to the biblical system.”

“Strive for perfection in everything we do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.”

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

“The generality labour under the delusion, that when they have lighted and filled their rooms, they have done their all. They never were more in error. Lighting is much—crowding is much also—but there lacks “something more exquisite still.” This something the countess possessed in its perfection. Any can assemble a crowd, but few can make it mingle.”

“The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.”

“When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.”

“What a player Paul is. Everything about him is just perfect.”

“When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”