• after a couple weeks the novelty will wear off
• we rarely see our own fashion flubs
• despite the danger on this road, if you drive it often, you probably feel very comfortable traveling it
• there’s a bigger, more important challenge out there and we've all overlooked it
• your story won't write itself
• most of us have something, or occasionally two things, that keeps us off the cover of Vogue
• you don’t need to sit in unusual positions
• the holidays are not a sprint
• in some cases, it’s not fun to have rules
• deep down, we all want to do the right thing
• traveling can make us crazy
• work friendships are largely geographical in nature
• shoving the negative emotion aside only buried it
• we all lie about something—our ages, IQs, how many nights a week we watch dance programs on TV
• you can't let the power freak you out if you're going to use it
• your life is full. And if you don't realize that... then you're just like the rest of us, but that's no excuse

The only way out is:

• through dreams of flying
• to develop a ‘whatever’ mentality
• to always ask why
• to roll a 1 on another turn
• to lie in it
• back the way you came
• to surrender
• a long, hard climb
• to pick up the pieces and move on
• inside a bottle
• through the valve of the cocoon
• to fine-tune the corrections
• a total and complete disclosure of who we are and what we’ve done
• in or within or down or up or through
• to run
• to train the mind to take refuge in the present
• a small hole
• through the killer ants
• to buckle down this storm
• to be transferred
• to come undone
• to go back and restore the old order
• to get out of the way
• to impose appropriate constraints
• to watch it pass through
• to take the demon's tower challenge
• on a stretcher
• saying rhymes
• rebirth
• to crawl up the other side and through a small opening under the stigma
• to grin and giggle and repeat the same old jokes over and over again
• to discard the doctrine
• to forgive and keep forgiving until there is nothing left in that place but compassion and understanding
• a gift from the gods
• being made plainer every day
• either to declare ourselves in crisis, go crazy, or diligently dedicate ourselves to the task of finding our own emancipation

• to keep dodging at random
• change the subject completely
• that what works best for you is what works best, period
• not to move when danger is near
• what should be left undone
• to buy flowers and buy them as often as possible
• that, God bless them, they are vulgarians
• that you must take sensible precautions, most of which are blindingly obvious
• that whatever you do to one side of the equation, you must also do to the other
• to go totally
• that you have to cock the hammer before you squeeze the trigger
• to run faster than the other person; that’s just good enough
• that bad points will be emphasized just as strongly as good ones
• to keep it free of lumps
• that if you want to double back on yourself it takes a bit of time to cancel out your inertia
• to keep the decimal points aligned
• to speak idea-wise, not sentence-wise
• that both history and future are only propositions and descriptions - the only real action is now
• to subtract backward
• if you love then all sacrifice is okay
• prompt treatment often saves much suffering
• never to look directly at the sun
• that you can't be half right
• self-preservation
• the Tetragrammaton
• to keep the shape fairly simple
• that there are no rules
• that a limp carrot is a very old carrot
• that the primary motivation comes from the familiar properties of “less than or equal to” and not “less than”
• a bond is created as soon as the pieces touch each other
• don't fly too close to anything else
• the old principle of harmony
• that we all put on an act from time to time, but there is no point in putting on an act before God
• memory cannot be taken as literally true
• that personal gains should neither be contradictory to divine rules nor cost losses to others
• not to set the voltage on the transformer too high
• don’t commit the same mistakes again and again
• to be balanced between activity and inactivity
• you've got to win the war
• not to give too much
• to remain a witness
• to take a sure aim
• that souffles wait for no one
• the honesty, the sincerity
• to make sure the calculator is in the right mode
• you're the one who's supposed to be on top
• not to overdo it
• that it isn’t and can't be November
• that "you were looking for a job when you found that one.”
• never to waste a potential source of food
• when it’s long, use the length
• be alert
• to make more than you think you will need
• don’t become the mask
• to always demand to speak to someone in charge who is high enough up to be able to make spontaneous
• decisions on your behalf
• don't be worried about others' motivations
• not to apologize and to wear something white
• that being innocent and appearing innocent are two entirely different things
• the silence, the equilibrium, the balance, the integrity
• it is usually best to "start small"
• never to lose sight of the basics
• that you can’t turn back on yourself
• to look up and not look down
• always be a lady, no matter how bad it hurts
• that you must act young and innocent
• that once you start giving prizes away, if you stop them, you're apt to stop the flow of questions
• don’t expend all your creative energies trying to get comfortable
• stay away from the front windows and don’t put any lights on
• not to meet their approaches with a similar rebuff
• if you're going to wait, you'll wait, and if you aren't, you weren't ever in love anyway
• that we have to speculate, if we are to have a rule for our conduct at all, that in one sense life itself rests on speculation, since it is always directed to ends not yet realized—so that the practical question is hardly whether we shall speculate or no, but whether we shall speculate wisely, comprehensively, consistently and well
• not to take yourself too seriously
• dreams
• that if you like it as much as I do make a bit more to allow for eating some as you go along
• that when you cross a field and go through a gate, leave the gate as you found it. That is a cardinal rule; do not forget it

• buy a reset switch
• keep quiet about what you’ve seen
• acknowledge its presence and not get too worked up about it
• simply admit, “I don’t know"
• be gentle with it
• dig a trench
• dangle a knotted rope
• use your newfound knowledge
• throw yourself into another activity
• yell and run for help
• limit your feelings by limiting your involvement
• stay cool and wait it out
• find out what works best for you
• keep at it
• say, "This is how it is, but there is no need for me to feel responsible and carry the whole burden"
• handle the matter personally
• calmly deny
• stay out of the middle
• expand the search area
• back up
• abandon it for another time
• ignore the stupid taunts
• smile, say “thank you,” and move on
• start praying
• quit
• get on with your life

The only thing that lasts is ...

• the sense of belonging to a place
• garbage
• repression
• the truth of Marx's teaching as interpreted by Lenin
• the unfolding of the tale
• the past
• now
• stone
• chaos
• art
• the stick
• the provisional
• hatred
• a memory
• work
• the careless flow of time
• the red earth of Tara
• death
• the enigma of the leaven the eye cannot see
• the growth of knowledge
• a joy beyond
• good soil in the hands of good husbandmen
• the human soul
• change itself
• the theatre building itself
• the green stuff
• the photos
• the nagging thought that nothing lasts forever

[Less-interesting items we left out]:

• friendship
• the good we leave behind
• love
• beauty
• family
• silence
• truth
• a right relationship with God

[Tidbits gathered through the course of our research.  See Bullet Lists.]

• not out-of-this-world
• richer than ever before dreamed
• surprisingly large
• lived by a handful of people
• fading into the dimness of the past
• underwater
• lying deep inside
• being opened
• rich in unusual flora and fauna
• home to the highest mountains
• finally being tamed
• settled
• on the border of the great Navajo Indian Reservation
• full of wonderful discoveries to make
• equipped with modern conveniences and advantages
• largely the rendezvous of stags
• awaiting new development after the war
• still ahead
• spectacular and moving to a degree
• blue
• widely hailed for its beauty and tranquility
• man's fight for freedom
• vanishing
• gone
• not tied to the snail-paced covered wagon of the old West
• dark, untamed, stubborn
• anything but the routine
• in good hands
• worthy of a Milton's pen
• lost, wiped away
• still viable
• cyberspace
• a literate place
• Alaska
• in part a tourist ploy
• becoming a permanent home
• a land of enchanting extremes
• located in the northeastern corner of California
• within us; it is the fourteen hundred grams of convoluted nerve tissue that lie behind our eyes and between our ears
• Montana
• still a very grand adventure
• coming up rosy
• the first frontier
• a question still to be answered

• a sacrificial altar
• a mermaid
• one's heart's desire
• the city of San Francisco
• a conundrum
• a unicorn
• a road paved with diamonds
• a kiss
• a turquoise
• a story
• a pot of oats
• a legion of angels of hope
• a bridge
• a phantom
• the Pierian Spring
• nothing
• an answer
• a pot of honey
• Glasgow, Kentucky
• a wishing well
• Elysium
• a long-lost friend
• a bucket of blood
• the Serene Sewing Angel
• a green prairie
• refreshing punch
• cheap fertilizer
• a heap of trash
• a lewd leprechaun
• a glass city
• the shining sweet star of the sea
• a fountain that never goes dry
• an enchanted kingdom
• an empty pot
• a stack of words
• the letter W