They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)

Maybe not having time to think is not having the wish to think.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

This monster of a land, this mightiest of nations, this spawn of the future, turns out to be the macrocosm of microcosm me.

With a few exceptions people don't want money. They want luxury and they want love and they want admiration.

People do not want advice - they want corroboration.