“Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.”
“Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.”
“Why would a guy spend five years writing a book when he can buy one for ten bucks?”
“In ten years, you'll be on a stamp /where anyone at all can lick you.”
“Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.”
“I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.”