I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.