One of my grandsons used to insist, when he was only 3 or 4, that he had been born and had lived in India

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

I have been the victim of heartless malice.

Men who retain irony are not to be trusted. They can't always resist an impulse to tickle themselves.

I never deviated from my grim determination to someday have all the money I needed and wanted.

It is not always wise to appear singular.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.