Another difference between rich people and poor people is that rich people can have what they want, whereas we usually can’t. When I was a kid growing up in New Jersey, we’d come into New York and go to F.A.O. Schwarz. I must have been 14 years old before I realized that F.A.O. Schwarz wasn’t a museum. I was once in a museum with a rich man who after about 20 minutes said he wanted to leave because it was too irritating to see things that he couldn’t buy. To us the world is a museum; to them it’s a store.

Fran Lebowitz (b. 1950) American journalist, essayist

Interview with James Atlas, “What They Look Like to the Rest of Us,” New York Times Magazine (19 Nov 1995)
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