The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.

It's as if people used the invention of seat belts as an opportunity to take up drunk driving.

People would rather earn 60 grand in an area where their neighbours earn 40, than earn 80 in an area where their neighbours earn a hundred.

The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.

The standard personality type for a writer is a shy megalomaniac.