If a man owes me money, I never seem to forget. But if I do the owing, I somehow never remember.
I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.
Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone
I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
When it comes to money, if you have it, you may feel that you don't deserve it—guilt. If you don't have it, you may feel that you should have it—guilt.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Debt is the most effective way to take a relation of violent subordination and make the victims feel that it's their fault.
Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.
Part of the problem I find with money books is that there's this whole set of money books that make you feel almost guilty to spend a dollar.
My money buys me the freedom not to be a member of the corporate structure. And I certainly don't feel guilty or hypocritical about that. The way our economy is set up, if you don't want to be a corporate moron and you don't want to be enfeebled in the streets, you must earn enough to know that you'll never have to go to them for money.
I have a massive guilt thing about money.
There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.
I didn't like taking money from individuals.
I'm going to end up with a lot more money than I feel like I'm entitled to, given how hard I work.
I often buy things, feel a little guilty, but then think that it's so worth it.
I was paid $8 or $9 million for 'Evan Almighty.' I didn't want that money.
I bought a Burberry jacket that I call my Chris Martin jacket. It's a bomber and was very expensive - there are just two in the world - and I felt very guilty.
