" People with no sense or appreciation of humor, Invigilator, always take money too seriously. Its possession, anyway.

Which is why they spend all their time stacking coins, counting this and that, gazing lovingly over their hoards and so on. They're compensating for the abject penury everywhere else in their lives.

Nice rings, by the way. "

― Steven Erikson , Reaper's Gale (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #7)