“…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.”
“Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst”
“The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air, leaving nothing but a memory of bright sound.”
“China is now, without doubt, the Mother of all Bubbles, and it will soonbe the mother of all economic disasters when that bubble bursts, bringingglobal economic calamity of unprecedented proportions, to unprecedentednumbers of people, all around the world.”
“Books. People have no idea how beautiful books are. How they taste on your fingers. How bright everything is when you light it with words.”
“Reputation is a bubble which bursts when a man tries to blow it up for himself.”