No one pays me to be nice.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

But when one does not complain, and when one wants to master oneself with a tyrant’s grip — one’s faculties rise in revolt — and one pays for outward calm with an almost unbearable inner...

When you’re a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast.

Do what you want to do in life and you will see what life will do to you on earth. What you always do, pays what it always pays!

We need to make sure that joblessness never pays more than employment.