A lot of ambitious code has been written into the law for those and we will have to see if it actually works, if we have another example of a big financial institution going bankrupt.

There are a lot of ways that investment banking models work, but these risks are not internalized by the people that are taking them.

That is, many times we're not risking our own money, we're risking somebody else's money, or maybe that someone is going to back stop or downside, but we still get the upside.

Well if you've got information about a company, or you believe that a company is undervalued, you can go out and buy their stock and you can make some profit on it.

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

If you pay attention to where your exposures are, you might tend up buying credit default swaps against a variety of people that you - companies that you deal with.

Credit default swap gives you something to do. You can buy some credit default swaps from them to protect yourself against the bankruptcy of people who owe you money.

Every time before you speak, look in the mirror and be sure not to copy someone else.

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom.

Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity.

I'm way too disorganized.

Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.

The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature.

Success is nearest to those whose efforts are intense and sincere.

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it.

Gods have many faces.