How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Above all else, tragedy requires the finest appreciation by the writer of cause and effect.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."