“The marriage seemed to flourish on Fathers extended absences. Ragtime”

“Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.”

“Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.”

“Poems have ideas. The ideas of poems come out of their emotions and their emotions are carried on images.”

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.”

“Rich people do not work for money, they are doing what they like to do”

“Why do we need money beyond a point? If we are free of ill health, enmity, and debt, is that not enough? Too much money only leads to less peace.”

“Nine out of ten significant people have to do with money or war!”

“I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resig...”

“Because I started investing in wiserrelationships, I am now an absurdly wealthy womanif blessings,fulfillment & joy are measured as wealth.”

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