I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.

My nightmare scenario is that the government saves Citibank once again, as well as the other banks, and business resumes as usual. Then, the next time the system breaks, it breaks much, much bigger.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one.

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.

If you don't feel that you haven't read enough, you haven't read enough.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.