She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.

People of ze wurl, relax!

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

The loony legacy of money was that the arithmetic by which things were measured had become more valuable than the things themselves.

Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.