Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
Source: Quoted by Thornton Wilder in: Writers at Work (First Series, ed. by Malcom Cowley, 1958
-- Gertrude Stein, (Feb 3 1874-1946), US author; She organized a writer's salon in Paris for post- WW I American expatriates known as the Lost Generation.