Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

Life's a freaking mess. In fact, I'm going to tell Sarah we need to start a new philosophical movement: messessentialism instead of existentialism: For those who revel in the essential mess that is life. Because Gram's right, there's not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It's all a beautiful calamitous mess. It's like the day Mr. James took us into the woods and cried triumphantly, "That's it! That's it!" to the dizzying cacophony of soloing instruments trying to make music together. That is it.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up get to work and get triumphantly through it.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.