A man who loves money is a bastard, someone to be hated. A man who can't take care of it is a fool. You don't hate him, but you got to pity him.

“Plums deify.”

“A man’s life was five dogs long, Cortland believed. The first was the one that …”

“And now, all these years later, it seemed to him that the most horrible fact of…”

“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or …”