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I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat inside. I grew up poor and will always feel poor inside. It's my pet paranoia.

I have a fear of poverty in old age. I have this vision of myself living in a skip and eating cat food. It's because I'm freelance, and I've never had a proper job. I don't have a pension, and my savings are dwindling. I always thought someone would just come along and look after me.

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

I'm too careful with money - comes out of being poor for several years while growing up.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

My family didn't have money, and I think it made me fearless. I'm willing to try everything and not be afraid because what's the worst that can be happen? It might not work out, but I can't be worse off than when I was a kid.

Maybe poverty is a special case of something else. That something else is 'scarcity,' and anyone who has the experience of 'having very little' experiences the same psychology.

Having money is better than not having it, but I've been poor, and I've survived.