Points to Ponder

Breaking rules isn’t interesting. It’s making up new ones that keeps things exciting.

WHAT IS IT LIKE to be a baby? It’s like being in love, in Paris, for the first time, after you’ve had three double espressos. ALISON GOPNIK, professor of psychology and cogni tivedevelopment researcher

ONE OF THE MOST valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was “Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.” CHRIS WARE, comic book artist and cartoonist

THERE ARE three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent. DOUGLAS COUPLAND, author, artist and designer

LIFE IS NOTHING if you’re not obsessed. JOHN WATERS, film director

IT’S SO HARD to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. CHUCK PALAHNIUK, novelist, in his book Diary