Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.

Living is messy.

Then if children make so much trouble, why do people have 'em?

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you!

Trouble is synonymous with being a metabolizing entity.

Life is difficult.

You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.

Life is something that happens while you're busy making other plans.

Here’s how to live: Make a million mistakes.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

to do something is to create existence