Their desperate craving for simplicity sure can create complications. And their pitiful longing for certainty sure can make things unsteady.

The world is full of people who will help you manufacture tornados in order to blow out a match.

Human beings were not well served by permanence or stasis. Obviously, if individuals were progressing, they were undergoing a series of presumably desirable alterations, but in a universe where flux is fundamental, it can be argued that even change for the worse is preferable to no change at all. Isn't fixity the hallmark of the living dead?

You are a complicated man, but happily complicated. You have found a way to be at home with the world's confusion, a way to embrace the chaos rather than struggle to reduce it or become its victim. It's all part of a game to you, and you are delighted to play.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

It is more important to be free than to be happy.