“Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the ‘gotta have it’ scale.”

“As a rule, people tend to forget the most important things in life when money, power and lust are involved.”

“I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.”

“When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!”

“Paper isn’t important. It’s the words on them that are important.”

“The most important thing in life is knowing the most important things in life.”