They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

People dislike uncertainty so much that they will impose an order on it even when it doesn't exist.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

Everything, in retrospect, is obvious. But if everything were obvious, authors of histories of financial folly would be rich . . .

My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is.