Mason Matthews

“The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt—and there is the story of mankind. I think that if rejection could be amputated, the human would not be what he is.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.”
― Somerset Maughm, The Razor’s Edge

“American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor’s Edge

“Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.”
― Ernest Hemingway