Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.
The passion for money is never fickle.
Sincerity: willingness to spend one’s own money.
Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.
Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.