If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him.

The wicked at heart probably know something.

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.