There is no country in the world where it's as easy to find venture capital in the stock market as the United States.

Mutual funds have historically offered safety and diversification. And they spare you the responsibility of picking individual stocks.

One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world.

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

I don't think that a mutual fund that invests exclusively in biotech start-ups or invests exclusively in companies in Thailand offers any great safety or diversification.

I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

The securities laws of the 1930s were so important because it forced companies to file registration statements and issue prospectuses, and it remedied the imbalance of information.

Early on, New York already had a national and even international identity.

Hamilton had one of those extraordinary 18th-century minds that touched on virtually every major topic of the day.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

Success and failure are largely the results of our habitual thoughts & many people create by default. — Marie Cunningham

The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.

It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.

I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.

You cannot talk to people successfully if they think you are not interested in what they have to say or you have no respect for them.

The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

If you take all your meals seriously, none of them gets a chance to matter.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.