It was a real treat when he'd read me Daisy Miller out loud. But we'd reached the point in our relationship when, in a straight choice between him and Henry James, I'd have taken Henry James any day even if Henry James were dead and not much of a one...
Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.
For trust not him that hath once broken faith
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
I always seemed to disappoint them. They expected me to be different than Henry or exactly like Henry. I was neither.
Coming to New York from the muted mistiness of London, as I regularly do, is like travelling from a monochrome antique shop to a technicolor bazaar.
Learning options will indeed mushroom for business students and leaders, but it will take prudence and shrewdness to find and utilize the best option.
Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.
I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.
When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.
Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
I'm always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.
The state of the economy is not the issue when it comes to growing a business. The relevant questions are always: 'What business are you in? Furthermore, is it adapting to the times?'
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
