Maryn

“... a society devoted to self-destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“Every month when the bills came in, there was trouble. Mother seemed to have no great extravagances. But she loved pretty things. She had a passion for china, for instance. She saw hundreds of beautiful cups and saucers that it was hard to walk away from and leave. She knew she couldn't buy them, and mustn't, but every so often she did. No one purchase seemed large by itself, but they kept mounting up, and Father declared that she bought more china than the Windsor Hotel.”
― Clarence Day Jr., Life with Father

“When money realizes that it is in good hands, it wants to stay and multiply in those hands.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“Your perspective on life comes from the cage you were held captive in.”
― Shannon L. Alder