Patriotism is a kind of religion

As she glanced down at the great distance to the ground below, she whispered in his ear, "You have obviously taken the heights of passion to an entirely new level, Killian O'Brien!

Love is a flame of fire.

...and he smiled a lot. The smile did not mean that he was happy. It meant he was stronger than most people, and that he intended to take advantage of it.

Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness.

Systems don't need to be changed. The trick is for a trader to develop a system with which he is compatible.

Maybe, just maybe, I should not have used the word "eldritch" so many times now that I think about it.

Go out and do something for somebody. Go out and give something to somebody. It will take you away from yourself and make you happy.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

I could trade without knowing the name of the market.

Fiction, maybe art in general, is a tentative, uncertain enterprise; it's not science, it's an exploration, but you never find much in the way of answers.