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

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.

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

The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.

People are much less interested in what you are trying to show them than what you are trying to hide.

You get pseudo-order when you seek order; you only get a measure of order and control when you embrace randomness.

If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.