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.

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.

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.

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.

Less thinking, more living.

It is all about trusting your choice that you have already made.

Your suffering is there to inspect you and perfect you. We are made complete by our pain.

Words are such fun!

She really wants to be my friend, I realize, and suddenly I feel very sorry for her. She doesn't know what a terrible thing it is she's asking for.

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

I think of myself as a songwriter, a weaver of story and imagination in a way that a novelist might write a book.