You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.

He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.

Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.

The world clings to its old mental picture of the stock market because it’s comforting; because it’s so hard to draw a picture of what has replaced it; and because the few people able to draw it for you have no interest in doing so.

I'd say part of the appeal of Trump is that he's presenting himself as a totally certain, infallible person.

You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.