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.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

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

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

All new money is made through the shifting of social classes and the dispossession of old classes.

Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

it's immoral to work to make money. There's something unlucky in it. You got to work for the work. You got to work on a farm, for the farm - then it makes money.