But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

It can be a way of knowledge, a path, an inspiration, a Tao, an ordering, a memory, a fantasy, a seduction, a prayer, a summoning, an incantation murmured under the breath as the torchlights sink lower and the forest looms taller and the wolves howl louder and the fire prepares for its submission to the encroaching dark.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.