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

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.

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.

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.

Anyone who is so busy that they do not have time to enjoy what life has for them are just too busy.

If you carry a weapon, war will follow you. If you carry a smile, love will knock at your door.

You have to work for what you want.

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well.

It is base and unworthy to live below the dignity of our nature.

'Peace' is when nobody's shooting. A 'just peace' is when our side gets what it wants.

People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.

That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin