For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and if you buy a car and grow flowers in it, you're forgetting that the car is designed to take you somewhere else.

If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.

I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.

That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.