"Before the phone call I had 30 years of retirement savings in a "safe" fund with a brilliant financial guru. When I put down the phone, my savings were gone and my genius financial guru, Bernie Madoff, was in handcuffs."
and
"Then I realize that, for me, the real suffering is not living without money; it's living with this rage. The devastation is horrible, but if I don't allow myself to feel this, then I can't learn what there is to learn. I will not see, for instance, that I participated in the fraud by being willing to close my eyes about what Madoff was doing."

--Geneen Roth, Break free of emotional eating guru, writing in Salon about how Bernard Madoff stole her savings