[AMOR TOWLES,
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.
Kids are absolutely starved for positive adult contact.
To be inspired is great, but to inspire is an honor.
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.