The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

We wouldn't care so much what people thought of us if we knew how seldom they did.

Richness, the ideas of having plenty of money, is not ... an absolute state. Richness is about the amount of money you have compared to the people you see around you. It is about where you are in relation to others, and where they are in relation to you ... and whether you can have the things you want and other people have.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.