Sublime

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.

McWatt was the craziest combat man of them all probably, because he was perfectly sane and still did not mind the war.

‘How can he see he’s got flies in his eyes if he’s got flies in his eyes?’

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history. Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have … enough.”