“It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.”

“No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.”

“You give people a little money and they lose all their manners, even the ones who had manners to begin with.”

“It’s great that a song now costs exactly the same as a pack of gum and lasts exactly the same amount of time before it loses its flavour and you have to spend another buck.”

“What is a secretary to a millionaire? Nine times out of ten it is a young man who likes living soft. A young man with nice manners and a taste for luxury and no brains and no enterprise, and if there is anything that is a softer job than being secretary to a millionaire it is marrying a rich woman for her money.”

“I was suddenly and completely inundated by it. What had been lost in losing him.”