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

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.

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

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 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.

The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.

If you think of something, do it.Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.

Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.

The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.

I don't think it was progressive to vote to give gun makers and sellers immunity. I don't think it was progressive to vote against Ted Kennedy's immigration reform.

Music, because of its specific and far-reaching metaphorical powers, can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable.

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia.

What I want to know is how the white man, with the blood of black people dripping off his fingers, can have the audacity to be asking black people [why] they hate him?

The trials and tribulations in your life make you stronger.

I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.