America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

Capitalism is a system for determining objective value.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

You can have somebody living next door to you and you can live in a completely different world from that person, which is definitely something we've never experienced before. So I think just because of the media landscape and the way we get our information now, we're more atomized and isolated from each other than ever before.

People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

It's come around to that point of view at the end of a long evolutionary process, in which the rule of law has slowly been replaced by giant idiosyncratic bureaucracies that are designed to criminalize failure, poverty, and weakness on the one hand, and to immunize strength, wealth, and success on the other.