It's gonna take a while. It's normal to take a while. You've just gotta fight your way through. - Michael Lewis

The most important possible thing you can do is do a lot of work.

A thought crossed his mind: How do you make poor people feel wealthy when wages are stagnant? You give them cheap loans.

...these stories are a kind of beacon. By making stories full of empathy and amusement and the sheer pleasure of discovering the world, these writers reassert the fact that we live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.