He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
“Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.”
“Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.”