Michael Lewis

I had not fully digested what had happened.

I didn't know that no one was gonna go to jail.

So that's one thing.

But that's a cheap answer because I think the deeper truth is that Adam's just capable of moral outrage than I am.

He just has it in him.

And I just don't.

Like I have a hard time getting outraged.

Amused is the wrong word.

But I was just delightfully interested in the human folly.

I thought it was kind of funny that all the Wall Street firms were stupid.

And I thought – and I was so interested in it.

And I was focused on these characters who had done basically the smart thing.

And there was, I did think, it wasn't outrage, but I did leave, I think best books, I find when I try to write my books, you sort of leave room for the reader to decide how they feel about it.

So if you're bringing a lot of outrage, bringing thunder to it, you don't give them any choice.

It's like, oh, you gotta feel this way.

It screws up the story.

It's bad writing, but

But in this case, in particular, I had this thing that I wanted the reader to feel uncomfortable with and have them figure out where they were going to go with this discomfort.

And the thing was, the heroes, in quotes, the protagonists of this book, you would naturally be lionizing because, oh, wow, they're so smart.

They figured out what was wrong and they made a killing.