“I am 'sort of' haunted by the conviction that the divine William is the biggest and most successful fraud ever practiced on a patient world.”

“It is those who are successful, in other words, who are most likely to be given the kinds of special opportunities that lead to further success. It’s the rich who get the biggest tax breaks. It’s the best students who get the best teaching and most attention. And it’s the biggest nine- and ten-year-olds who get the most coaching and practice. Success is the result of what sociologists like to call “accumulative advantage.”

“America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.”

“I will be the biggest, richest, most popular writer in history. You just watch, dead reader. I'll be the biggest whore ever!”

“In what resides the most characteristic Virtue of humanity?In good works? Possibly. In the creation of beautiful objects? Perhaps. But some would look in a different direction, and find it in detachment. To all such David Hume must be a great saint in the calendar; for no mortal being was ever more completely divested of the trammels of the personal and the particular, none ever practiced with more consummated success the divine art of impartiality”

“Forget the housing, bond or derivatives bubbles … Fraud Is the Biggest Bubble of all time”