An integral part of any relationship is knowing that you could be killed in your sleep at any time.

Finance is more like sex than science.

Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight?

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.

Dead things show you what you’ll be too one day.