When a condition or a problem becomes too great, humans have the protection of not thinking about it. But it goes inward and minces up with a lot of other things already there and what comes out is discontent and uneasiness, guilt and a compulsion to get something—anything—before it is all gone.

What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few and those perhaps not accurately.

In poverty she is envious. In riches she may be a snob. Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.”

To most of the world success is never bad. I remember how, when Hitler moved unchecked and triumphant, many honorable men sought and found virtues in him. And Mussolini made the trains run on time, and Vichy collaborated for the good of France, and whatever else Stalin was, he was strong. Strength and success—they are above morality, above criticis

That’s one of his ways of getting attention and proving that he exists.

I ache to be alone with you in a strange place.

there is no such thing as just enough money. Only two measures: No Money and Not Enough Money.”