I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

He walked out into the cold morning asking himself this heretical question: Can you start measuring a minute at any instant you wish?

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money