I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

The mutual fund industry and small investors are very relentless and very unforgiving if people don't perform.

In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.