Husbandry is the foundation of civilization - all sustenance derives from it, as well as the principal benefits and blessings that civilization brings.

My father’s corporation, the Nero Organization, supplied assassins for hire. Killing was our business, and business had been good for years.

The pulse of New York City can be found on the bent elbows of the patrons in Pete's Tavern.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?” "...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning." "Well reasoned.

Fixing bars is easy. Fixing people is tough.

It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over.

My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?

I think jazz is good, but I don't enjoy it. It's not for me.

When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.