Good sentences from good books: Liar's Poker redux

From Michael Lewis's Liar's Poker, a sentence I found very familiar:

"I certainly had no fixed idea of what I wanted to do when I graduated from college, and Wall Street paid the most for what I could do, which was nothing."

Liar's Poker is increasingly worth another read, describing as it does the first time Wall Street blew up trying to repackage mortgage debt.