“Merchant: 'So you have lived on the possessions of others?'Saddhartha: 'Apparently. The merchant also lives on the possession of others.'Merchant: 'Well spoken...”
“The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.”
“I live to create value in peoples' lives and I measure myself by their reactions. I'm a love merchant. I trade in intangibles.”
“(Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise”
“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”
“Only a shallow mind would be puzzled by the fact that Original Sin appears to be distributed so much more noticeably among the deprived...than among merchant bankers living in Surrey's green belt.”