“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
“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
“The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.”Edward St. Aubyn Bad News, Chapter 12
“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