“There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who ca...” — Ethan Canin Quote

There once was this powerful, both capital and political, class who cared about supporting and affirming a solid middle class in this country.

What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

Medicine ended up being the best thing I ever did for my writing.

I think even great writers only write two books that you might like. When I think of my touchstone writers like Saul Bellow, I think of 'Henderson the Rain King.' With Don DeLillo, I think of 'Libra.'

John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.

If the job of capitalism is to create wealth for those who put up the capital, no fund group comes close to Vanguard's success in serving its owners. So we're probably as far away from communism as is realistically possible.

KPMG is committed to the highest standards of professionalism, , and quality, and we are dedicated to the capital markets we serve.

Your celebrity capital rises and falls in any given year. And when you have some - temporarily, usually - you try to use it for some good.

If someone were to say that life at hard labor is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel, I should reply that, taking all the unhappy moments of perpetual slavery together, it is perhaps even more painful, but these moments are spread out over a lifetime, and capital punishment exercises all its power in an instant.