"If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to," Dorothy Parker mused. If you want quotations from Shakespeare and Emerson, look elsewhere, because New York Times book critic Dwight Garner has combed the literature of the past century to assemble this collection of maxims and musings that reflect the world of today. Among the many contributors are Stephen King, Octavia E. Butler, Christopher Hitchens, Edna O'Brien, RuPaul, Philip Roth, Rachel Cusk, Zadie Smith, and John Waters, who quips, "I don't trust anybody who hasn't shoplifted."