Mark Haddon Quotes

The thing that really struck me when I went to junior high was class. I grew up on a pretty poor street, but the school district I was in included some fine neighborhoods - so I got to know a couple of the kids from those places and went to their houses and experienced such culture shock.

Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.

The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

I'm tired of people on trust funds telling people on food stamps how to live.

It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

It's quite confusing being one of the less wealthy people at a posh place.

Growing up on, say, the Upper East Side, you're so isolated. If you go to the Hamptons every weekend, you never talk to a construction worker, and the construction worker would never talk to you.

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States.

I don't think it's good for people to be born into money and not know what it is never to have it.

The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer.

The competition of the poor takes away from the reward of the rich.

I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.

I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Everybody is not born with a silver spoon in their mouth. There are only a very small percentage of those types of people, you know what I mean?

I didn't have the clothes that a kid with a famous, rich dad would have. I didn't have the house. I didn't have the mannerisms. I didn't have the sense of entitlement. And I don't mean that in a bad way: I just - we didn't have the stuff.

The rich are different from us.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.

The laws are stacked for the wealthy.