Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

In the end, the wind takes everything, doesn't it? And why not? Why other? If the sweetness of our lives did not depart, there would be no sweetness at all.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

There were people who lied for gain, people who lied from pain, people who lied simply because the concept of telling the truth was utterly alien to them . . . and then there were people who lied because they were waiting for it to be time to tell the truth.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.