Tom Steck: "Life is madness. Life without madness is madness. If you choose to live through the madness you must dance with the madness." "Art is forging a bell larger and larger, so its tone will sound longer and deeper, with music that is profound and fragile, though wary that it will crack." "We are all to be enslaved. Alas we have the luxury to choose our masters." "There is no assurance that there is a happy ending for our stories, as we see them. There is only the assurance in the Character of the Author of the Whole Story. There are no assurances that God will do what He is able to do. But there is an assurance that God's desires and your desires can be the same, that you and God can work together on the same story. For that is the character of God." "Forgiveness, by definition, is undeserved. For it is the Undeserving we must forgive. It is easy, then, to feel too noble, too consciously gracious, when we forgive. It is with pride that we announce our forgiveness, but it is with humility that we bear the arduous process of forgiveness, and let the wind of time wear down those unscalable mountains." Tenessee Williams: "Life is an unanswered question, but let's believe in the dignity and importance of the question." Ambrose Bierce: "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher." James Yamasaki: "The meaning of life is the search for meaning. " Aldous Huxley: Science has “explained” nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness. Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown. Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced. Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs. A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour. Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead. There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.