You can always tell that the crash is coming when I start getting tender about Our Dumb Friends.Three highballs and I think I'm St Francis of Assisi.

-Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild
  Here Lies,'Just a Little One'.

Bankers'genes were Wall St. genes, especially in the big cities. If the banks were conservative just now [1955], it was because bankers still awoke in the middle of the night, trembling and sweaty with thoughts of the Crash. But intimeanewgenerationwouldtake over: ambitious, overcompetitive young men to whom1929 would be merelya date on a page; such menwould sever theroots of memory as if with an ax, not realizing that those tendrils were also the rudder cables.

-Thomas, Michael M
  The Ropespinner Conspiracy.