Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.
Michael LewisWarren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.
Michael LewisI was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.
Michael LewisPeople in the voting booth are not purely rational creatures any more than they're purely rational creatures outside the voting booth.
Michael LewisI don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.
Michael Lewis