You are either on Wall Street or you’re a bum and there’s nothing in between.

And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.

It's possible to remain long in the state of deprivation if you are not aware you can escape it. Knowing what exists and who you are is enough to inform you to make ideal choices.

In society, we do horrible things to one another because we don’t see the person it affects. We don’t see their face. We don’t see them as people.

It's weird when you think that you are weird and it's weird when you don't know that you are weird.

Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast.

There’s nobody taking center from me until I give it up.

We speak much of God, can talk of him, his ways, his works, his counsels, all the day long; the truth is, we know very little of him.

I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.