Professional Reflection Gifts

'I worked very hard and finally got to the top of the ladder... only to find that I'd leaned it against the wrong wall.'

"Where else in the world would you get such wonderful sunsets?"

37 years in the same position.

"It's days like this that make me long for days like this."

"Ooh, ooh, I know this koan! I got it! Pick me! Pick me!"

"Could you go back to the front desk? The receptionist has some forms for you to fill out."

'Hello? Missing Persons?'

People in the mirror may be more attractive than they appear.

"What was I thinking?!"

'Just ask yourself -- Are you better off now than you were two thousand years ago?'

'...when did you first get these feelings of wanting to be a psychiatrist?'

'Hey! Contemplate your own navel!'

What else is there to wish for?

'I can't believe I didn't get that promotion. So many people have passed me by I feel like a road sign on the highway to success.'

Pastorius wonders why.

"Oh good, more time alone for quiet reflection."

"Nature speaks to me of God’s presence, yet God is a total stranger to the restless world of men." "Why the #!@* is there no signal?!"

"Needs to get a life"

"Then one day, as I caught a tennis ball in midair, I asked myself, 'Is this all there is?'"

'Uh, Dad - My wife thinks she and I should have a mountain of our own.'

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

* For latent content, see your psychiatrist.

"Geez, from way up here it almost looks like there’s hope for humanity."

That party went well.

That midnight hour when fleeting memories come home to roost.

'When I was young, I said I'd make it big or know the reason why - Well, I sure know the reason why!'

"Hey! If you're here to marvel at the smallness of your existence within a glorious, vast and unknowable universe, there's a line!"

"Talking to your own reflection? Even your imagination is pathetic."

"The overthinker"

Cellphone Islands

"Wait... what was it I came up here for?"

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

'Half an optimist is an odd bird, Sarah.'

"It seems like only yesterday that Dad told me I'll be an adult before I know it."

"How was my day? I'm still calculating the little victories minus the humiliations I normally suffer."