“Why we are always in contention is that we usually have three players that are in the top 10 or top 20. I'm really excited to see Natalie starting to come back to her own. Kim has just been steady all year. Tammy had a top-10 finish; she's having a phenomenal year.”

“It is absolutely appropriate to receive financial support from those who expect us to meet their needs if we hold to high standards of academic rigor, freedom and responsibility. But this does not mean any party ... can buy the results they want, whether it is the content of our courses, the findings of our research or the education and outreach we deliver.”

“What happened with the Internet is that people tended to define their companies by the channel in which they operated. But really when you look at what those businesses do, they all do the same thing. They attempt to generate response and value and measure that value. And they try to get people to engage with something deeper, like content, or whatever it might happen to be.”

“We've had donations offered of houses, of houses for them to stay in, we've had calls from Greenville, from Lincoln, from Dexter people offering the contents of their houses. Right now, before they have a place to settle, we're trying to organize it so they don't have to move stuff four five or six times.”

If you stay open to the wisdom of your Muse, you may discover you’re a playwright, a sculptor, a kitchen-table comedian, a beacon of creative kindness, or a person who chooses grace over ego and contentment over greed. And in that choice you will create an world of joy within yourself, you’ll truly be an artist of being alive.

Led Zeppelin created their music from a diet of Bert Jansch, Memphis Minnie, John Fahey, Billy Fury, Phil Spector, Richard 'Rabbit' Brown, Moby Grape, Manitas De Plata and Om Kalsoum. Those who came afterwards were content with a diet of Led Zeppelin, which is not the same thing at all.

“When we built the site for Oceanic Airlines, we wanted to do something that was different from all the other TV show sites. What we discovered was that by creating additional content for this show, we could create a marketing tool that would have fans more invested in the program, and if it was cool they'd share with their friends.”

“The purpose of the book isn't necessarily, 'We're all miserable and here's how to be happier,' ... There are many people who are feeling very happy. But it's addressed to people from the standpoint of whatever level of life satisfaction and contentment you're experiencing, it's always possible through your own efforts to increase that level and improve upon it.”

“Stanford has been fortunate to partner with Apple in a project that allows us to share the intellectual and cultural life of the university with our alumni. We are especially pleased that the project's focus is to deliver substantive content that so clearly supports the university's mission of teaching, learning and research both in the classroom and to our thousands of alumni around the world.”

And be thinking, remembering. Trying to. All difficult dark stuff, stories stuffed away, like old socks into old pillowcases. Not quite knowing the weight of truth in them much more. And things that I have let be a long time in the interests of happiness, or at least that daily contentment that I was once I do believe mistress of