Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk.

If you don't gamble, you'll never win.

I think we have to prepare the mind in one way or another to accept the great uprush or downrush, whichever you like to call it, of the greater non-self.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

An irrelevance, and your life's altered.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.