I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.
Poor Martin. Geek or no, committing his soul to eternal damnation was a helluva price to pay for six minutes.
Sometimes you wake up from a dream. Sometimes you wake up in a dream. And sometimes, every once in a while, you wake up in someone else's dream.
Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.
I need you,ʺ said Lissa. ʺI hear that from women a lot,ʺ said Adrian.
You're better than this. Better than whatever it is you're going to do now.
The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.
We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, "What business am I in?" Second, "How's business?"
For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.