I hated discussing ideas with investors, because then I become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process.

It is ludicrous to believe that asset bubbles can only be recognized in hindsight.

If you are going to be a great investor, you have to fit the style to who you are.

My natural state is an outsider. I've always felt outside the group, and I've always been analyzing the group.

I have always believed that a single talented analyst, working very hard, can cover an amazing amount of investment landscape, and this belief remains unchallenged in my mind.

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It’s up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out.

The late 90s almost forced me to identify myself as a value investor, because I thought what everybody else was doing was insane.

I just really like to find my own ideas.

Read every line item until you get it.

Early on, people invested in me because of my letters and then, somehow, after they invested, they stopped reading them.

My positioning with my investors was always, I need three to five years.

The stars, he said, were actually souls, all the souls that were too restless to be locked up in heaven. They were so restless that God let them stay outside at night to play.

[Colin to Sugar Beth] I put my heart on every page.

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

When the body is sad, the heart languishes.

I started writing songs when I started learning guitar.

When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.

One murder is too many. But it is important that we learn about what has been effective.

Did man e'er live Saw priest or woman yet forgive?

I have seen the universe! It is made of poems!

I'm duty-bound to follow the law and apply to the law to the facts as I find them.