"The Adventures of Augie March" Quotes

I am an American, Chicago born—Chicago, that somber city—and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.

All my life I wanted to be somebody, and here I am.

I want to get rich quick and be poor again with a resonant patrimony out of which I can work up something to make it worth my while thereafter not to be rich quick.

The world allows you just as many chances as you can count.

A man can get sad, because he doesn't think he's going to win or live long enough for anything to matter.

Everybody else was boss, but he had the aristocratic talent of making himself boss.

Why does money have to be a dirty business?

A guy without much money will certainly spend some nights alone.

Women are like that: when they outsiders themselves in with a man they mean to stick.

You don't have to thank me! I already feel your gratitude.