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

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.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

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