I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

The sum of the parts equals less than the whole. Or the howl. Or the how. Or the hole.

I think it is extremely interesting to think that, in some cases, vice might be, finally, more redemptive than virtue.

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

Poetry is God's work.

It is bizarre that some people can't understand how a serious poet could work at a finance firm. Goethe was a bureaucrat. Eliot worked as a banker.

I do think most poets are in denial about what the real taboos in writing are--the real boundaries.

God wants you to begin to strategise, plan, draw out tactics, methodologies of how your business would take over that particular sphere of business where you are

a sense of the love of Christ in the cross

I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines.

I was never accepted into certain parts of New England society because my grandfather was an Irish barkeep.

Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

Men gossip less than women, but mean it.

Acting is a specific discipline. Just because you can sing doesn't mean you have the sensitivities of being an actor.

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

We can only learn about creativity through our own experience of it.