“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

“No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”

“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.”

“...the day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole”

“He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor”

“By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore.”

“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature. I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I appear generous in order to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that I am conciliatory in order not to succumb to my repressed rage, that I am punctual only to hide how little I care about other people’s time. I learned, in short, that love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”