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By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.

One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical.

The most important thing to me is my work, and reaching people through my work.

I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, ‘How could you dare write that story, it’s the most frightening work I have ever read.’ I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

I realized that my usual approach is usually critical. That is, a lot of the things that I do, that most people do, are because they hate something somebody else has done, or they hate that something hasn’t been done.

In the last generation we’ve moved past a U.S.-Mexico relationship that while friendly on the surface, and demilitarized for the most part, really was not a genuinely cooperative relationship.

I think that most people think painters are kind of ridiculous, you know?

Most people have learned to live in the moment.