“It is remarkable…what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.”
“To be able to bring change into a fixed world, [she] thought. There is power in that.”
“[Those] on fixed incomes are the nation's math elite.”
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.They make you feel so alive that you'd follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”
“Proust's life changed due to a very large inheritance he received (in today's terms, a principal of about $6 million, with a monthly income of about $15,000).”
“What if we knew what tomorrow would bring? Would we fix it? Could we?”