“You know what they say - sleep is the mother's drug of choice, but like heroin, only the very rich and the very poor can afford it.”

“You can be very RICH! You know what to do.”

“Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that. But still, it is not right that rich people make us middle people feel dopey and inadequate.”

“Rich kid," Shiva yelled, "you don't know one damn thing! What purpose, man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason, yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind!”

“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”

“The rich can afford to be progressive. Poor people have reason to be afraid of the future.”