“Yes, I have five dollars for each of you.”

“Five billion dollars a year spent on ringtones? What the?”

“I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.”

“Another magazine wanted the Long Lost Hills in digest form. A hundred dollars. I was rich again. A time for amends, for righting the past. I sent my mother five dollars.”

“Yet another hedge fund manager explained Icelandic banking to me this way: you have a dog, and I have a cat. We agree that each is worth a billion dollars. You sell me the dog for a billion, and I sell you the cat for a billion. Now we are no longer pet owners but Icelandic banks, with a billion dollars in new assets.”

“The PLAYSTATION3 will retail for Five-Hundred-Ninety-Nine US Dollars.”

“For 246 years [African slaves] received only board, lodging, and scant clothing. Calculated at one dollar a day, they earned five trillion dollars which have never been paid them.”

“Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.”

“A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and Holy Ghost on drums.”

“Steal five dollars and you're a common thief. Steal thousands and you're either the government or a hero.”