Worrying about life doesn't make it any easier, but working tirelessly towards a better lifestyle always does.

The morality of compromise sounds contradictory.

Go be the next humblest version of yourself.

There's an expectation these days that novels - like any other consumer product - should be made on a production line, with one dropping from the conveyor belt every couple of years.

Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia.

A salesman sees a commission.

Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to turn out, so that he wouldn't have to bother going through the motions.

To reach the goals of your life, you need discipline, you need luck and you need something as important as these two: Vacations!

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.