meaning

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other.I could have had differentancestors, after all.I could have flutteredfrom another nestor crawled bescaledfrom under another tree.Nature's wardrobeholds a fair supply of costumes:spider, seagull, field mouse.Each fits perfectly right offand is dutifully worninto shreds.

Nothing is more futile than looking for meaning in things that have none.

Arts degrees are awesome. And they help you find meaning where there is none. And let me assure you, there is none. Don__ go looking for it. Searching for meaning is like searching for a rhyme scheme in a cookbook: you won__ find it and you__l bugger up your soufflé.

The key to living a purposeful life lies in identifying how best you can be a vehicle for God's divine love and light.

Uh, I really didn't mean to disturb you.''I sincerely hope that is untrue. If you arrived here with no objective capable of disturbing me then you arrived with no objective at all, and you will have succeeded in disturbing me without purpose.

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

The older you get, the faster time passes in your mind, so use your time according to what is most important.

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it more unintelligible, more enigmatic, more fabulous.

As I approach a new project, my process always begins with the question: what is it about? Here__ one answer that might apply to a Star Trek movie... I want it to be about the most horrible, treacherous aliens ever known to man who are about to destroy life as we know it, leading to the most spectacular thrill ride of an adventure with fantastic space battles and huge explosions and great special effects -- a white knuckle ride for the movie audience. Yeah, but what__ it about?I can write space battles with the best of them, but what makes that space battle interesting to me is: why are they fighting? What are the stakes? What does the hero lose if he loses? And what does he win if he wins? Why should we care? I'm talking about the second level of story-telling. The level that examines what's going on inside the characters _ their moral and ethical dilemmas, their doubts, fears, inner conflicts, how they change as the story progresses. These are the things that make us, as members of an audience, get emotionally involved.

Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." Ray Mancini.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

...WHAT DID YOU DO TODAY...that counts?...that carries meaning?...that made the day worthwhile?...what will you do tomorrow?

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can make an event.

After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.

Are you in pain?' I asked, because I know that everything in the world that matters shows up as some kind of pain. Or pang. Joy included.