Writing time has to be created.

The only people who think writing is easy are people who don't write. Writing's a difficult, courageous act. Bravery is required, as well as a great deal of slogging along. A lot of our work is work.

Why does everything always feel worse at night?

Until you've faced a crowd of graduating seniors, you have not experienced apathy.

An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

We look for pretty girls we can say bad things to. No one shows up.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

Let us live, while we are alive!

The time is probably near when a new system of architectural laws will be developed, adapted entirely to metallic construction.

I decided to dub the room with the good chairs my lutery. Or perhaps my performatory. I would need a while to come up with something suitably pretentious.

All history is the history of thought.

Life, never deciding to master anything in particular.