Grace

“A student incquired at his college bookstore about a book whose author's name he could not remember, but whose queer title was, to the best of his recollection, "A World Full of Lobsters.”
― Robert L. Heilbroner, The Worldly Philosophers

“This is the story of the extraordinary rise and epic fall of the Vanderbilt dynasty. This is the story of the greatest American fortune ever squandered.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“Women [are] dwarfed not developed by competition. . . . What men did not want to do, they said was women’s sphere. If a woman is natural[,] a man does not want her. This makes of woman a liar and a pretender. A woman is an actress who plays to an audience of men. They know what will be applauded and what will be hissed.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

“They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”
― Anderson Cooper, Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty