“I find economics increasingly satisfactory, and I think I am rather good at it. I want to manage a railroad or organise a Trust or at least swindle the investing public”
“I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.”
“So if you want to find somebody to blame for the way i am, I guess you'd have to start with the public education system.”
“Because I care so much about what you think, my hiding has everything to do with you. I desperately want to manage your opinion of me. Nearly anything I do is to convince you I am good.”
“Each tim I think I am falling for Mister Right, and then what happens? BAM! The guy turns out to be a fraud, a swindling scoundrel, or a dishonest, disparaging jerk!”
“It’s not that I want people to think I am smart, or even that I am a good writer. I write because I want to end my loneliness.”