“Poets never die, I thought. They just fail in the end.”
“Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid.”
“A promise made is a debt unpaid”
“Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.”
“At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.”