Anything that's worth anything is complicated.
Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.
Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.
You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.
People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs
Basically, financial reporting is this sinking hole at the centre of journalism. You start by swimming around it until finally, reluctantly, you can't fight the pull anymore and you get sucked down the drain into the biz pages.