1979 Quote by Michael Lewis

“I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.”

— Saul Bellow

“...Sometimes one just had to forge on and let the chips fall where they may. After all, we were the ones in the trenches,…

— Delfi Messinger

“He had great ideas for change but was too busy with other things to pursue them. He postulated. He pontificated. He spoke glowingly of…

— Abiodun Fijabi

“Gone were the days when Zuckerman had only to worry about Zuckerman making money: henceforth he would have to worry about his money making…

— Philip Roth

“I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.”

— Adam Nevill

“A real politician, and these were real politicians, never betrays his country to an outsider. He betrays it to himself. He is the enemy…

— Guy Endore

“But there was a flip side to his fastidiousness. He saw that now. It was a nose-in-the-air way of moving through the world. In…

— Lee Martin

“no different from the myriad of other politicos he’d bought and sold from around the world, men and women eager for power and lacking…

— Steve Berry

“he claimed to be one of the last true conservatives—only, to conserve, you had to prune and graft and adjust.”

— Poul Anderson

“One of the liabilities of being a deep thinker...was that it left him vulnerable to existential crises.”

— Bridie Clark

“His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, usolved doubt. He is one of those who doesn't want millions, but an…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Rhys told himself that everything came with a price. He’d made a difficult choice years ago to regain all he had, and some days…

— Julie Anne Long