Best advice I've ever received: Finish.

Why not make a daily pleasure out a daily necessity.

Good manners make any man a pleasure to be with. Ask any woman.

Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted in the spring died. The patch of grass in front of the house abandoned its ambitions to become a lawn and turned into the dirty yellow of poor straw. The earth shrank, revealing its knuckles and bones, rocks and roots that had been invisible before.

The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over The Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.

I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

Best advice I've ever received: Finish.