Life imitates art -- but badly.
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.