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

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.