It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

When I moved to New York, the reputation just followed me, and I am regularly invited to play in home games, by writers in particular, though finance folk also invite me on occasion.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.