Gregory Lynn

“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.”
― Samuel Lover, Rory O'More

“by refusing to make any moral judgment here, even the most modest one, people are missing something obvious about the time: that there was a revolutionary fervor in that era fueled not by racial injustice, as Doctorow presented it in Ragtime, but by hatred of the rich, which was fueled in turn by the fact that rich people”
― Bill James, Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence

“There's always a next time; your job is to make sure, financially, that there is a next time. Without being so conservative that you never give yourself the opportunity to succeed in a competitive industry at all.”
― Nicholas Erik, The Ultimate Guide to Book Marketing: The 80/20 System for Selling More Books