I now record the one act for which I take some credit to myself, though the credit rightly belongs to some excellent ancestors of mine who left me a certain sum of money--shall we say five hundred pounds a year?

Think of the great variety of work that allowed Jobs to spend even one day as CEO

If that makes living a morally decent life extremely arduous, well, then that is the way things are

The things I find in Dumpsters, the love letters and ragdolls of so many lives, remind me of this lesson.  Now I hardly pick up a thing without envisioning the time I will cast it away.