Robert

“The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.”
― Norman Mailer , The Deer Park

“people don’t do what they say they believe, they do what’s convenient and then they repent,”
― Rory Sutherland, Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man

“Marriage, as a human institution, depends on the concept of first being better than best. And so does business.”
― Al Ries, Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

“I read once that certain musical compositions (by Bach? by Beethoven? I forget) sounded like the efforts of the human soul to explain itself to God. If ever I find my perfect combination of brown and lilac, I’ll feel as though I’ve thus explained myself.”
― Gerald Murnane, Something for the Pain: A Memoir of the Turf