Austin

“Ben understood at last that money was one big dragon, with a billion dollars for a head, and a penny on the tip of its tail. It had as many voices as there were men and women, and it captured all who were fools enough to listen to it all the time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

“Boo'ful," she said, "life could be so diff'rent—"
"But it never is," I said.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”
― Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan