"But you can't believe things because they're a lovely idea? But I do. That's how I believe."
- Evelyn Waugh
"But the financial industry is supremely pragmatic. While it may genuflect to the old icons, it invests its research dollars in the search for newer, better gods."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
"The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!"
- Evelyn Waugh
"I have left behind illusion,' I said to myself. 'Henceforth I live in a world of three dimensions - with the aid of my five senses.'
I have since learned that there is no such world, but then, as the car turned out of sight of the house, I thought it took no finding, but lay all about me at the end of the avenue."
- Evelyn Waugh
"My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
"Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"No one is ever holy without suffering."
- Evelyn Waugh
"Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?"
- Evelyn Waugh
"For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself."
- Benoit Mandelbrot
"If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper..."