Augusten Burroughs Quotes

You certainly have a higher quality of life when you are not on the Forbes list. It just means that your security changes, and you're known for the wrong things.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life.

I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

Sometimes you're a little too close for comfort, and I think anybody can relate to that, whether you're in college or just moving out on your own.

My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

I'm not a hugely social person. Obviously there's a big part of the job that requires that as actors, but it's not the most comfortable for me. I'm a homebody. I don't go out. My life is work and family. There's not a lot in between. That's how I like it.

I don't have to be a 'gazillionaire;' what's important to me is to just being able to work.

I live a good life but a pretty simply life. I just store all my money under my mattress. My wife and I travel, and I bought my dream car, the Cobra.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Money and good life had never been my goal.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

I want to live.

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

I care about my quality of life and money.

Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.

Your home should be about enriching the daily experience.

The less of one's life one must exchange for money, the more freedom one may enjoy.

I'm from Berkeley, so I don't really aspire to a lot of glitzy stuff. But things like having a home that I'm comfortable in or leasing a car that I'm comfortable in, basic everyday kind of stuff, I will splurge for that.

The best part of success is that it got me past the basic survival level of existence so that I was comfortable. I didn't have to worry about stuff pertaining to survival. Once that was taken care of, I got the chance sit down and create and work at what I do.

I really enjoy my privacy and being able to walk my son to school every morning and pick him up every afternoon.

I have a nice apartment now that's all taken care of. I make my bed every day.