"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories"

"Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop"

"Business is the salt of life"

"Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"All lasting business is built on friendship"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"