“Do you earn income as a model? Maybe I do.”
“I earned this, fair and square." We'll, maybe it hadn't been fair. And maybe it hadn't been precisely square. Still, she'd earned it legally. Legally and... rectangularly. That would have to do.”
“Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.”
“If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.”
“Your income can grow only to the extent that you do.”
“I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.”