“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.” – Henry Ford

“Caress the detail, the divine detail.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.” – Thomas Carlyle

“I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.” – Cormac McCarthy

“The world is a lot more fun when you approach it with an exuberant imperfection.” – Chris Baty