When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.