Money is like a sixth sense – and you can’t make use of the other five without it.
Martin Amis – Money
Money as Sense
M
Simplicity of Feeding
S
Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn’t.
Martin Amis – Money
World’s Disappointment
W
Every day I try to turn my heart toward the world, but every day somebody does something that makes me turn it back.
Martin Amis – Money
Life and Death Sunrise
L
I am the Raskolnikov of jerking off…
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Truth vs. Coercion
T
You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Life’s Cruel Comedy
L
Life is a comedy written by a sadistic comedy writer.
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Brief Adulthood
B
Adulthood is a wonderful thing, and brief. You must be sure to enjoy it while it lasts.
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Perpetual Adolescence
P
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Mother’s Influence
M
She was so deeply embedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint
Cry for Attention
C
We are all of us born shouting out for attention, if we’re not born dead.
Philip Roth – Portnoy’s Complaint