In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.