Money is flat and meant to be piled up.

“Flat was good; flat meant she didn’t care, meant she wouldn’t get sucked under this time, but she knew not to hope too much.”

— Lindsay Chamberlin

I'd earned enough money, I had a flat in Wimbledon, I did some corporate things, but I was really unhappy. After being challenged all…

— Sue Barker

in the place I am from ... a grave is topped off with a huge mound of loose earth - carelessly, as if piled…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Who are they now? They are the simplest version possible of themselves... They are out from under everything ever piled on top of them.”

— Philip Roth

In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time.…

— Edmund White

As early as I can remember, I wanted to be a snowplow driver. When you grow up in the Rocky Mountains, like I did,…

— Kip Thorne

One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books,…

— Mary Roach

I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little…

— Rob Lowe

The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

My home has a split personality. Some of the rooms are very French antique. Think Aubusson rugs, turquoise ceramic jugs, sandbag pillows, and broken…

— Poppy Delevingne

We're chipping away at our capacity for wonder. When hologram TVs eventually go on sale, they'll cost £20,000 and be bought only by those…

— Peter Baynham

I have an addictive personality. I was addicted to computer games... and then all that obsessive nature just piled into music.

— Chet Faker

I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close…

— Scott Adsit

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please…

— Mario Monti

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer,…

— Helen Oyeyemi