Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
I think for much of the middle classes, nothing could be more fantastic than to have a contact with fame. But once you have that contact with fame and find out how vacuous it is, that it doesn't answer anything… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
It's not success that makes a person's life worthy of legend. It's provocative defeat, someone who struggled mightily and lost. And that loss can't… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
I do think it's interesting when people are born into families that at one point had huge amounts of money and that money has… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
I think for much of the middle classes, nothing could be more fantastic than to have a contact with fame. But once you have… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
It does seem like if you're an interesting person and you have endless amounts of money to indulge your fantasies, then those fantasies will… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
It seems when the madness sets in the mix of wealth and seductiveness, it's never the first generation that acquired the wealth; they had… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
If money doesn't come with misery, then it's not at all interesting and it's not at all fair. It seems if you have all… — Lawrence Douglas Copy Share Image
