“You're buying years of work, toil in the sun; you're buying a sorrow that can't talk.”
“You're not buying only junk, you're buying junked lives. And more - you'll see - you're buying bitterness.”
“When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.”
“When you're huntin' somepin you're a hunter, an' you're strong. Can't nobody beat a hunter. But when you get hunted - that's different. Somepin happens to you. You ain't strong: maybe you're fierce, but you ain't strong." - Muley”
“No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.”
“There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.”
“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.”