A tory youth is a youth speculating on his future.

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.

We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with the idea of morality.

Old age is perhaps life's decision about us.

You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

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

To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.