“Push enough to make progress, but not so much that it is unsustainable.”

“strange, there's so much religion in the world, but only enough to make us fight over who is right, not enough to make us love one another.”

“So much paperwork to read! So much paperwork to push away! So much paperwork to pretend he hadn't received and that might have been eaten by gargoyles.”

“Rock music makes me alive, it makes me awake, so that tiredness can touch me and make me say – It's enough, I have earned much popularity.”

“What mires me in pessimism is the fact that so much of life is pain and sorrow and willful ignorance and violence, and pushing back against that tide takes so much effort, so much steady fight. It’s tiring.”

“I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.”

“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”

“But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.”

“If you continue to visualize things in the past, you are unlikely to make much progress in the present and the future.”

“I knew her well enough to understand that when Delia pushed you away, it was her way of making sure she didn't get shoved first.”