Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.

I didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.

The Irish turned in on themselves and bid up their own land prices in the most extraordinary ways... The Irish people stepped in and guaranteed the banks, and committed to repay sums they can't afford to repay, and essentially committed themselves to generations of suffering.

Everywhere you turn you see Americans sacrifice their long-term interests for a short-term reward.

What are the odds that people will make smart decisions about money if they don't need to make smart decisions--if they can get rich making dumb decisions? The incentives on Wall Street were all wrong; they're still all wrong.

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