Within one's own family money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything. There are all kinds of other things that we are not supposed to sell - political influence being one of them. We too rarely have public conversations about the common sense of money. We too rarely talk about the human cost of putting some of these economic measures into effect.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

You can’t buy it, but it has a price,” said Oryx. “Everything has a price.

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

...and nostalgia swept through Jimmy like a sudden hunger.