Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there must be few people who have not felt a twinge of nostalgia for the cold war.

Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.

Losing your capital is like losing your trousers. It is a real humiliation, and one not to be soon repeated.

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

The perfect of yesterday / today, may not last till tomorrow.And for not being perfect yesterday / today, doesn't mean that tomorrow will be the same.

He knelt between her legs and flicked his tongue up the length of her slick folds. And knew what heaven was when she slid her fingers into his hair, moaning his name like a prayer.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

The Babies we were are buried, and their shadows are plodding on.

Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you.

Writers are encouraged to "keep 'em laughing" and complain "with good humor" in order to "win" allies. The joke is always on ourselves.

I've lived in California for half of my life. It's weird, everyone thinks of me as this guy who's from the South ... I'm really a Californian.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I think everybody from Philadelphia been shot at before.

One hundred and ten years from now no one who is here now will be alive.