“Nothing knits man to man like the frequent passage from hand to hand of cash.”

“Man's gift of seeing resemblances is nothing other than a rudiment of the powerful compulsion in former times to become and behave like something else.”

“(…) my money guy Richard is going without a tie now, like a politician who wants to appeal to the suffering common man (or perhaps every morning his firm takes the ties and shoelaces away from the brokers and financial planners to keep them from offing themselves)”

“It was odd and intimate, their hands connected, their heads in different rooms. They could talk. They could hold hands. But they couldn't see each other's faces.”

“We born dyin'...But you ask a man an' he talk like he gonna live forevah.”

“All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.”

“Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.”