“Money is not nice. Money got no friends but more money.”

“A reputation for money is almost as negotiable as money itself.”

“The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off.”

“And all their love was thinned with money.”

“Anything that just costs money is cheap.”

“Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms.”

“And always, if he had a little money, a man could get drunk. The hard edges gone, and the warmth. Then there was no loneliness, for a man could people his brain with friends, and he could find his enemies and destroy them.”