You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.

This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.

There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.

It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories to bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.