“Because that’s what happened to fury when tenderness was applied. It dissolved.”

“Are you OK with pissing people off to succeed? Because that’s what will happen. Success pisses off the unsuccessful.”

“For this was the round of love: fear which leads on desire, tenderness and fury, and that brutal anguish which triumphantly follows pleasure.”

“That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.”

“The idiot had shot their own dog. That’s what happened when the destructive potential of a man’s weapons exceeded his intelligence.”

“You know what happens at any magic show? When the magician says ‘look here, look here,’ the audience looks only there and nowhere else. And that’s exactly what happened at the earnings conference today.”