“For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich – the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising – and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana’s: “Money is the petrol of life.”

“For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich – the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising – and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana’s: “Money is the petrol of life.”

— Andrew Holleran