But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as knowing how to put it right.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.

The City is, in terms of its basic functioning, a far-off country of which we know little.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

In other words, RBS had its origins in a failed speculation, a bail-out, and a financial crash so big it helped destroy Scotland's status as a separate nation.

The seven Ps: Proper Planning and Preparation Prevent Piss-Poor Performance

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.

And yet, despite this portrait of a self assured woman, Cindy seemed to have a near obsession with being where everyone was and doing what everyone was doing.

Snow was the most beautiful thing Amitola had ever seen. It fell so gracefully and drizzled her skin like a cold whisper.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

The period right before punk rock where people like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop were really strong.

Voice acting is about the easiest thing to do. You roll out of bed, throw your clothes on that you had on the night before, you go into the studio, and nobody cares, just as long as you can speak.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Nowadays, influencers do anything to keep up with each other for attention, and it's not always something today's youth should mimic.

We are participants in a vast communion of being, and if we open ourselves to its guidance, we can learn anew how to live in this great and gracious community of truth.

We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn't that much money to be made.

There is no magic in magic, it's all in the details.