If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.""And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.

Don't go a-hunting for a moose where there ain't no moose to hunt.

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.

You cannot fake effort; talent is great, but perseverance is necessary.

Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

The art of detection is finding a common denominator for the fractions of a case.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!