"Education is teaching our children to desire the right things."

“I don't think I need to be an apologist for working hard and being a very large taxpayer.”

Source : ""Life Is Unfair": Talking Inequality With The Hedge Fund Industry's Biggest Cheerleader". Interview with Hamilton Nolan, gawker.com. October 5, 2015.

“I don't feel that I need a tattoo to represent myself as a Samoan or a Christian.”

“Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1870). “Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms”, p.6

“Averages don't always reveal the most telling realities. You know, Shaquille O'Neal and I have an average height of 6 feet.”

“Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?”

Source : Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus (2009). “Nanny Returns: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

“You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.”

“I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.”

“What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?”

Source : Rabih Alameddine (2002). “I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters”, p.103, W. W. Norton & Company