Paul Auster Quotes

Boy, we'll get Raymond out and we won't go hungry anymore.

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus.

I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.

People, in general, want to improve their lives and the lives of their children and other loved ones.

I find success to be being able to do what you love and provide for your family by doing what you love.

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice.

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

That's what I do this for, to secure my family's future. I don't care about anything else. I'm able to spoil people, and that's the best thing.

The financial reward is great and I love the life I have, but all money makes possible is for you to stop worrying about money. Then you have freedom to live your life.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

I love cash.

Financially I'm comfortable. But life has a lot more in store for me.

I simply want you to give to yourself as much as you give of yourself. By taking care of yourself financially, you will truly be able to take care of those you love.

I don't feel like a wealthy person. Other people think of me as a wealthy person, but I don't. I feel the same as when I was a fifth-year associate trying to make partner at Lehman Brothers. I haven't changed.

I want to make as much money as I possibly can so that when my day comes, my mother and sister is fine. My close friends are fine. They don't have to worry about anything ever again.

People don't really give me much anymore, and for good reason. I have to pay for a lot of stuff now, I can afford a lot more than I ever could before. No one really gives me anything anymore, but it feels good.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

I've obviously made a very nice amount of money. I have a very nice lifestyle. I get to do what I love. Very few actors get to do that, and even fewer are lucky enough to work steadily for 24 years.

I come from a really poor family, and when I started doing campaigns, it changed everything for my family. I am not complaining; I had a beautiful childhood - we didn't have a lot of money, but there was always food on the table, and my parents saved money so that in the holidays we would all get in the car and drive to the mountains.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

If it's independent, it's because I love it... 'cause they usually end up costing me money to do.