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 this money, and no misery, you…

- Lawrence Douglas

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 an…

- Lawrence Douglas

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 j…

- Lawrence Douglas

Nothing is drearier than just always telling the truth about yourself. Rousseau, who as far as I can tell was a pathological liar, made this wonderfu…

- Lawrence Douglas

Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuro…

- Lawrence Douglas

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 to be quite…

- Lawrence Douglas

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 be plagu…

- Lawrence Douglas

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 kind of vanished over t…

- Lawrence Douglas