“No man is an island — although one’s known a surprising number who own one.” Edward St. Aubyn Some Hope, Chapter 9
“When a man of my father’s wealth dies of cancer, you know they haven’t found a cure.” Edward St. Aubyn Some Hope, Chapter 9 Wealth
“The claim that every man kills the thing he loves seemed to him a wild guess compared with the near certainty of a man turning into the thing he hates.” Edward St. Aubyn Some Hope, Chapter 1 Love , Hate
“The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.” Edward St. Aubyn Bad News, Chapter 12 Age
“What did this long-range goodwill mean, and what did it say about the social contract that allowed a rich man to free all of his descendents from the need to work over the course of almost two centuries?” Edward St. Aubyn At Last, Chapter 6