“Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.”

“I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.”

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”

“Again I see you, But me I don't see!, The magical mirror in which I saw myself has been broken, And only a piece of me I see in each fatal fragment - Only a piece of you and me!…”

“I see myself as the mind of the business which takes care of every last detail; if you do not do this you cannot be fast enough.”

“Really! Between you and Eragon, I seem to spend most of my time among the Varden healing people to silly to realize they need to avoid getting chopped into tiny little pieces”

“Oh seize the instant time; you never will
With waters once passed by impel the mill.”

“My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there.”

“Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.”

“If I ever did a rom-com, it'd be about an orgy. I cannot do anything except ensemble-pieces. It's awful!”