What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.

Men, I thought, were more trouble than they were worth. Really, one should stick to books where one sees the hero coming a mile off.

Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

Life-actors never rehearse and need no script. A life-actor uses whatever he has available, nothing more, nothing less.

I bet they didn't tell you that was in the gift bag.

I use a "Debt Dash" approach to paying off debt. I recommend people focus on paying off the debt with the lowest balance first. So if the primary has less debt you would focus on that.

Some writers would be kinder than others, I'm sure. Hopefully they might describe my techniques as a mixture of tried and tested formulas - if it aint broke don't fix it - and unexpected twists.

In every enterprise consider where you would come out.

Screw reality. It don’t feed my dog. It don’t make my Porsche payments. It don’t get me laid. Bullshit does that…and I like it that way. (Leo)