The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
You have to believe in the reality of the world and the reality of the people in it.
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them.