years

Friendly professional conduct is a good thing.  But it is a mistake to expect friendship from one's profession.

brief

The need of the hour: a fluidly alternating grip on metaphorical thinking and direct manipulation.

HGA

When I see people living more fully and broadly on the outside, I count the cost of getting so far inside.

corporate

By law, we refine aggression into a purer, more aggressive, and yet less irritating form.

First

Adam is a useful conception.  (Pun not intended.)

Useful because he focuses the ambiguity of man's place.  Supreme yet nothing.  Naught but wonder.  Angels merely appertain, which is the chief reason that Lucifer is as hard to think of as Satan is easy. 

misty

Transitions are movements into the unknown.  Some transitions are like corners turned - sharp and obscured by known barriers to foresight.  Others are like a passage through mist - thickly shapeless, with knowledge baffled even as to the nature of what intervenes.

ba

To learn Burmese, before you learn numbers, before you learn letters, before you learn much of anything - you must learn how to pay respect verbally - to suffix what you say with a little acoustic bow.  It is that basic.

caesura

For better and worse, I find that gaps in the intensity of my work feel like - and largely are - gaps in the intensity of my life, or worse, gaps in my self.

Ferguson

"Intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism."

profession

Partly, one is being paid for accepting pain.  And again partly, for accepting unschedulable happenstance.

becalmed

There's no better word for the problem of heaven: one would feel becalmed.  Or not - once heaven is supposed, an altered mental state is a short leap.