Sometimes I write with a particular person in mind. I think it's fair to say that I write for a perceptive reader. You have to get it. If you don't get it the first time you may not understand. If you like repetition, analysis, explanation, you probably won't like my books.

Life is weather. Life is meals.

Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.

The normal economic system works itself.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Normally, what you’re envious of is a book, not a writer: standards, ideas, levels … almost nonexistent things.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.