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

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

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

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 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 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

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

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