Financiers are great mythomaniacs, their explanations and superstitions are those of primitive men; the world is a jungle to them.They perceive acutely that they are at the dawn of economic history.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

Each Australian is a Ulysses.

A dominant race did not lie, because it had the whip.

Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.