بغدادی پیر (ناول)

Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Beware of the person of one book.

Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.