This is one of the two great labyrinths into which human minds are drawn: the question of free will versus predestination.

If money is a science, then it is a dark science...it has gone on developing...by its own rules

. . . if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago, and has gone on developing ever since, by its own rules.

Most men would rather be shot through with a broad-headed arrow than be described by you.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the other?""The other is the composition of the continuum, or: what is space?

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world.""And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

To achieve great things, we must first dream.

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise the audience.

Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.

The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.

Success is like Halley's comet, you know. Every now and then it just comes around.

From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.