Sublime

Of course he read Chandler: The Big Sleep and The Long Goodbye. He read The Day of the Locust and Double Indemnity, and though they gave pictures to his memories, the quotidian evaded them.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires. THE PRINCE, Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527

Frank Donovan, a lifetime close friend and a lawyer from Detroit. He was known among his friends and clients as a brilliant legal analyst with a nonaggressive temperament. No litigator. When we were both twenty, I remember him saying: "When there's a fight, I pick up my hat and go home." He had a large head, somewhat out of proportion to

the more he is like a punch-drunk pug fighting himself in the movies.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books; nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned

Almost everyone on Wall Street took his money seriously, regardless of its origins,