"There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic."

"When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable."

"I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them."

"Buying a car used to be an experience so soul-scorching, so confidence-splattering, so existentially rattling that an entire car company was based on the promise that you wouldn't have to come in contact with it."

"Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life."

"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything."

"Value your friendship. Value your relationships."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."