It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. Especially tonight.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.