The concept of the marvelous begins to take form when it arises from an unexpected alteration of reality, the miracle.
Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it
There are two types of change: the change we choose and the change that chooses us.
Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.
I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.
'Veronica Mars' was my first job, and for some reason, my character changed her hairstyle halfway through the season from curly to - I don't even know why - suddenly straight.
Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
If something fails despite being carefully planned, carefully designed, and conscientiously executed, that failure often bespeaks underlying change and, with it, opportunity.
On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.
The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you, by the grace of God.
It's funny how things change slowly, until the day we realize they've changed completely.
William Blake said 200 years ago that when man and mountains meet, something big is happening. I'm searching for the 'big.'
A Dream Theater without me was never in the plan; I never expected that.
Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different.
A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.
God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.
There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.
It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.
