"I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody."

"And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings."

"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."

"Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric."

"Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence."

"You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future."

"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well."