Death is something you cannot escape, such as death, or a cheesecake that has curdled, both of which always turn up sooner later.
People who say money doesn’t matter are like people who say cake doesn’t matter—it’s probably because they’ve already had a few slices.
13. 99 percent is a very large percentage. For instance, easily 99 percent of people want a roof over their heads, food on their tables, and the occasional slice of cake for dessert. Surely an arrangement can be made with that niggling 1 percent who disagree.
Wishing, like sipping a glass of punch, or pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor, is merely a quiet way to spend one's time before the candles are extinguished on one's birthday cake.