The trick to playing second fiddle is to play it like second Stradivarius.

You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit.

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Do not call any work menial until you have watched a proud person do it.

What are memories but dreams of a better past.

Love is at first a set of delusions, which, as time goes by, are discarded like training wheels, and you love truly.