“What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?”

“People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? You can't take it with you. The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.”

“Time stands still for man and woman alike, it is a good moment, because Time usually makes everything worse, poor people grow old, rich people can buy a little time but they can'hold it up for good, it always catches up with them. In the last analysis, Time is democratic.”

“… show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.”

“We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.”

“My metaphors are dirty like herpes, but harder to catch, like an escape tunnel in prison I started from scratch.”

“What good is money if it can't buy happiness?”

“We'll buy a lot of clothes when we don't really need 'em/Things we buy to cover up what's inside/Cause they make us hate our-self and love they wealth.”

“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”

“What good is the moon if you can't buy or sell it?”