Credit is the air that financial markets breathe, and when the air is poisoned, there's no place to hide.

The evolution was always to greater scale and speed. Other countries did that here and there - GB in textiles, Germany in steel - but we went in that direction almost across the board.

The Transcontinental Railroad Act is the first step in creating a continental common market.

My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

We demonstrated what you could do when a band of entrepreneurs settles an empty country with vast resources. The Chinese have a billion people and are running out of water. Tougher problem for sure.

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

I think it was the occasion of the final psychological break with Great Britain, in a way that had clearly not happened to that date, especially in New England and to som degree in the South.

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

No specific technology. My guess is that it was the instinct always to go to maximum scale. Great Britain kept much more of a small shop mindset well into the twentieth century, for instance.

For just a few dollars registration, you got temporary possession of a good piece of land. Live on it for five years, build a house, and farm it, and it was yours. What a brilliant economic stimulus!

I tell myself I am brave and yet, I still fear change. I guess it’s time to face that fear.

We are all walking a thin line between the sacred and the ordinary. The two are never far from each other, and sometimes they are the same

If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it.

In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie.

My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to you get out there and make them happen.

Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket.

Something is usable if it behaves exactly as expected.

I knew what love was supposed to be: obsession with undertones of nausea.

I love you. And I want you, too. But. However. Unfortunately...

Mankind's greatest achievements are found on thank you notes, not resumes.