“It’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it’s a depression when you lose your own.”
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
“When it’s your fourth marriage, you tend to lose faith in superstitions.”
“When you own nothing, it’s hard to believe you have anything to lose.”
“What does your sorrow do while you sleep? -It’s awake and waiting. And when it loses patience, it wakes me up.”
“But really, it’s probably just easiest to keep doing what I’m doing. You know how it goes. At first it’s just for the time being, until you can get your own story together, be the hero in something of your own. You tell people it’s your day job, you tell yourself it’s your day job, and then, at some point, without you noticing, it stops being your day job and just becomes your job.”