People move forward into the future out of the way they comprehend the past. When we don't understand something in our past, we are therefore crippled.

The way you write affects what you say.

The sole virtue of losing your short-term memory is that it does free you to be your own editor.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

Goldstein, you'd be a pretty good boy if you wasn't so chicken.

There's nothing glorious about being a professional. . . . Professionalism probably comes down to being able to work on a bad day.

Bright was the light of my last martini on my moral horizon