The best way to predict the future is to create it.
The true investor welcomes volatility... a wildly fluctuating market means that irrationally low prices will periodically be attached to solid businesses.
To write is to confront the ghosts of the past and the uncertainties of the future.
"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."