With a blade at your throat, a well-connected uncle or a wealthy mother could not save you. Only you could save yourself.

Like a dried up spring, magic trickled forth with less and less strength, until one day, the people awoke and there was simply no more to be had.

Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace.

because in the past words have only driven them apart.

People are mysterious, even to themselves.

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don't like Picasso, that's your problem.

Only a madman would give good for evil

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you

I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.

When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter.