If you're the kind of kid who thinks that all that's important in life is making money, Wall Street is probably still the place to go, especially now that Trump's elected.

Donald Trump got almost 3 million fewer votes than Hillary Clinton! He happened to get more in some of the right places. It was just like one of those things where a stock going up and people impose a false sense of order on it. It's really more intellectually honestly viewed as a disorderly process.

In their leaders, advisers, and experts, people much prefer overconfidence, total certainty, to any kind of doubt.

When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.

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

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.

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.