“A tie is a win for more than one person. But a tie is also a loss equally shared by two or more people. ”
“People have emotional ties to books, more often than you think...”
“A professor I had in college used to tell me that if someone won’t listen to what you have to say because you’re not wearing a tie, then put on a tie, ’cause what you have to say is more important than not wearing a tie. He was right.”
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”
“A tie is like an arrow pointing to my crotch. A tie is also like an even score.”
“I could never find two people who are perfectly equal: one will always be more valuable than the other. And many people, as a matter of fact, simply have no value.”