“Recognition without money will not get you recognised.”

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

“Without money and without connections- I have failed you!”

“A banjo will get you through times of no money, but money won't get you through times of no banjo”

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”

“Why didn’t you dare it before? he asked harshly.When I hadn’t a job? When I was starving? When I was just as I am now, as a man, as an artist, the same Martin Eden? That’s the question. I’ve been asking myself for many a day. My brain is the same old brain. And what is puzzling me is why they want me now. Surely they don’t want me for myself, for myself the same olf self they did not want. They must want me for something else, for something that is outside of me, for something that is not I. Shall I tell you what that something is? It is for the recognition I have recieved. That recognition is not I. Then again for the money I have earned and am earnin. But money is not I. And is it for the recognition and money, that you now want me?”