Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.