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It occurred to me that the problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you’re finished.
As with real estate, what matters with bullet holes is location, location, location.
“You own this place?” “My uncle does. He wants me to buy it.” “Don’t buy anything. My philosophy is, if it flies, floats, or fucks, rent it.”
There was a saying that in Manhattan the present was so strong, it obscured the past. But here, the past was so strong, it obscured the present.
It always amazed me that widows and children, who were entirely clueless about what to get the old boy for Christmas or Father’s Day, knew exactly what the late great Pop would want after he popped off.
Some crazy people make up imaginary friends who tell them to kill people. Other crazy people make up imaginary enemies who are trying to kill them. The latter, I think, is a little less crazy and a lot more useful.
They were enamored with the glamour and romance of wine making.”
The wonderful thing about America is that there are more antiques in circulation than were originally made.
America is a country of second and third chances, a place of multiple resuscitations, so that, given enough retakes, only a total idiot can’t eventually get it right.
“Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy, until you can find a rock.”
I truly wanted to stand up and run out of there before I did something that was irretrievably evil, but the black heart that lurks in all of us had awakened in me.
That’s life. The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.
