Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.