That's What Happens When You're Thirty-seven Years

They [some Countries] Borrowed Money To Go Acquire Things, Indian Power Plants And Danish Newspapers And British Soccer Teams. And They Did It Willy-nilly, And They Themselves A Story, That Icelandic History And Culture And Dna Leaves Us Very Well-suited To Being Investment Bankers.

That Was How A Salomon Bond Trader Thought: He Forgot Whatever It Was That He Wanted To Do For A Minute And Put His Finger On The Pulse Of The Market. If The Market Felt Fidgety, If People Were Scared Or Desperate, He Herded Them Like Sheep Into A Corner, Then Made Them Pay For Their Uncertainty. He Sat On The Market Until It Puked Gold Coins. Then He Worried About What He Wanted To Do.

When Something Happens People Didn't Predict, They Find Ways To Explain It As If It Were Predictable.

Baseball Has So Much History And Tradition. You Can Respect It, Or You Can Exploit It For Profit, But It's Still Being Made All Over The Place, All The Time.

I Always Find With My Stories That The Way They Start Is That I Just Get So Interested In A Person That I'm Compelled To Go Back To Them Over And Over Until I Learn More And More About Them, Without Even Quite Thinking It's Material For A Book.