I didn't send back any of the royalty checks.

I could have just received royalty checks every month by lending my name to a collection, but I didn't want to do that. My name is a reflection of me.

The royalty checks each quarter pay the utilities on this big house.

[Fat] Joe owes a lot of money. He's been fucking around with the money, the royalty checks and all of that, ... Pun's wife should never ever have had financial problems with as many records as Pun sold.

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.