Warren Buffett is fond of saying that any player unaware of the fool in the market probably is the fool in the market.

The Moulin Rouge is, like the West Village and the Nasdaq, one of those places that people who don't like to take risks come to for the thrill of being on the spot where risks once were taken.

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

The only thing history teaches us, a wise man once said, is that history doesn’t teach us anything.

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.

All of a sudden the market is all about algos and routers.

My characters are actually usually pretty smart and admirable.