
“Life is more difficult for the serious artist. Time is money, but also money is money.”
Source: Blue Ant trilogy, Pattern Recognition (2003), Chapter 26, "SIGINT"

There were a few expensively bound and weirdly neutered bookazines here, but he knew from glancing through them that these were bland advertisements for being wealthy, wealthy and deeply, witheringly unimaginative.
Reading, his therapist had suggested, had likely been his first drug.
Source: Blue Ant trilogy, Zero History (2010), Chapter 18, "140" (Milgrim in London)