A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

Every group spends more when its income grows.

In almost every instance, air and water quality goals were met more cheaply and quickly when we taxed pollution than when we tried to regulate it directly.

Once firms had to pay to pollute, they became incredibly inventive at figuring out cheaper ways to eliminate their SO2 emissions.

Ever since the Great Depression, economists have known that demand shortages tend to persist in the wake of severe financial crises like the ones that happened in 1929 and 2008.

Most of us are addicted to non-active reading. The outstanding fault of the non-active or undemanding reader is his inattention to words, and his consequent failure to come to terms with the author.

Her words didn’t have the acrid smell of death.

Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to be.

The practice of fiction can be dangerous: it puts ideas into the head of the world.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

Silence is the garment of light.

But so far as countries are concerned, I don't go to a place to see what's there, but who is there.

Music is the key to the female heart.

Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories and they will figure out how those stories apply to them.

What really bothers me, what gets me mad, is when people don't know the story, but then pretend like they know the story. That's what bothers me. That's what makes me mad.