“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.”

“Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.”

“If you can be in the money, you will get many get out of the state of being down to their bottom dollar.”

“He who combines the useful and the pleasing wins out by both instructing and delighting the reader. That is the sort of book that will make money for the publisher, cross the seas, and extend the fame of the author.”

“I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.”