What you do affects yourself now, at the end of the month, possibly next year and maybe thirty years from now.

FORBES: "Do No Harm Spending"- Of Boots And Vacations

We did everything that could be done, and toward morning we were giving them a fifty-fifty chance, maybe less than that, maybe thirty-seventy for the wife.

NEWYORKER: Beginners

The author once made a list of all the pieces he had written in maybe twenty or thirty years, and then put a check mark beside each one whose subject related to things he had been interested in before he went to college.

NEWYORKER: Progression