Pride was the belt you used to hold your pants up when you had no pants.

No one can be as intellectually slothful as a really smart person

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

Dreams age faster than dreamers.