“Almost anything that consoles us is a fake.”

“No, Wing Chun will never use a fake punch.”

“Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.”

“This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody.”

“You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.”

“I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.”

“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.”

“In fact, using entirely reasonable assumptions, you can make the Dow's discounted market value almost anything you want it to be.”

“Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.”

“People who don't know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.”