“You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.”— Frank Sinatra
“The filmmaker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last, the equal of the novelist.”— André Bazin
“A man on a horse is spiritually as well as physically bigger than a man on foot.”— Bernard Cornwell
“Status ambiguity, in short, is what makes conflict over precedence conceivable, and honor is what makes it matter.”— Roger V. Gould
“The argument of this book is that symmetrical conflict—violence between people who are socially near to one another—is not the result of status inconsistency but of status ambiguity.”— Roger V. Gould