“Nothing, save the hangman's noose, concentrates the mind like piles of cash.”
“There’s nothing like a major emergency and the almost certain death of the whole damned world to concentrate the mind wonderfully.”
“Money is seen as a great evil. But I've never seen a pile of cash stab someone.”
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
“Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.”
“I'm looking forward to the noose. Nothing better than a good hanging.”