Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.

There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.

Money and sex are forces too unruly for our reason; they can only be controlled by taboos with which we tamper at our peril.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.