"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."

“I should give all the works of Baudelaire for a female Olympic swimmer.”

“The rich don't have to kill to eat." –”

“A woman who spends her time worrying about pregnancy is a virtual cripple; she'll never go very far.―”

“The rich are inebriate in another way and cannot contrive to grasp these frenzied longings for security. To be rich is another form of intoxication: it spells forgetfulness. In fact, that is what one wants riches for: to forget.”

“Spiritually we are at ground zero, sunk, bored to perdition. All our arts prove it. Since the renaissance, so mechanized, we repeat with almost futile variants the same hackneyed sentimentalities Love! Re-love No Love! More Love!”

“You pin-heads, you have not understood in communism its admirable, instantaneous manner of appeasing all your ruined tax-payer grudges ferociously, in the name of a new purity, a non-existent proletarian virtue, you deceived jackals. Your intimate personal plan won't wash. I am well acquainted with you.”