“In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often t...” — John Lanchester Quote

“In the U.S., it is a crime to lie to a federal agent, and it's often this that sends people to jail over financial matters.”

“One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a kind of sport-like aspect to the American coverage of finance.”

“Money is like poetry because both involve learning to communicate in a compressed language that packs a lot of meaning and consequence into the minimum semantic space.”

“When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.”

“Had I listened to my agent, I'd be running around in tights, climbing buildings and stuff.”

“I had been struggling to get roles in Hollywood for three and a half years after leaving the WWE. Then I finally got an agent - the agent I have now. He's a great guy, but he turned me down three times before he even decided to take me on a as a client.”