The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.

The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.

Only if the dragon and the eagle turn their sights from each other and make room for each other in the world they share, can they reach new and brighter horizons.

In the next century it will be the early mechanical bird which get the first plastic worm out of the artificial grass.

I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.

Salinger is a master of the memorable detail, the seemingly random gesture, the debris of mundane daily operations, the stuff that is left out of any analysis.

By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.