Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper..

What is striking is these things [patterns in nature, e.g. fish stripes] do look like something that has been crafted. We are conditioned to think th….

I live a pretty anonymous life..

We are all of us, unique - each a unique pattern of creativity and if we do not fulfill it, it is lost for all time..

I'm the best Manning..

I've waited all my life to say this... I weigh less than Elizabeth Taylor!.

Change is as good as a rest. It keeps me fresh..

It's a very American thing to hide away from death..

There is no cultivation of patience when your pattern is to just try to seek harmony and smooth everything out. Patience implies willingness to be al….

Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks….

I'm not maximized yet..

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh..

I like sayers of no better than I like sayers of yes..

The biggest fear that I have is settling into too many set behavior patterns, where I feel like I'm no longer exploring possibilities anymore..

I totally understand OJ. I get it..

It is entirely up to us to invent our own lives..

I love anything that haunts me...and never leaves.

Never, never have I been loved as I love others!.

There is, quite literally, nothing to understand..

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

Find your center and stay there..