“We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just because you were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Or just because of some fatal flaw. Nothing to do with talent.”
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“A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.”
“It is often in the darkest skies that we see the brightest stars.”
“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.”
“When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.”
“Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures.”