Should you protect profits? Yes, ... But run for the hills? No. |
Some people have been reluctant to call this a bull market, because it's nothing like the 1990s. But it is a bull market -- it's just nothing like the 1990s. |
strong-minded and independent. |
The Academy tends to like to mix the expected with the unexpected choices, |
The fact that a stock like Microsoft could fall so much is a sign that there is very little investment activity in the market. It is a symptom of the domination of traders and hedge funds in the market. |
The Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy and will remain a fifteen-year-old until they die |
The long haul kind of wearies me, the thought of doing a book for two or three or years; and you have to rule so much else out of your life. I always knew that literature satisfied a taste for considering life in a certain way, but that it wasn't a guide to living. |
There's no way in hell cash is about to come roaring back into the market. |
Together they are the Melville, Hawthorne, and Twain of the 20th century, |
Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology. |
Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war. |
When I was first in Czechoslovakia, it occurred to me that I work in a society where as a writer everything goes and nothing matters, while for the Czech writers I met in Prague, nothing goes and everything matters |
When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it. |