Goodwin has done the seemingly impossible-he has made economics comprehensible and funny.

The corporation, like the psychopathic personality it resembles, is programmed to exploit others for profit.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

As a psychopathic creature, the corporation can neither recognize nor act upon moral reasons to refrain from harming others.

By leveraging their freedom from the bonds of location, corporations could now dictate the economic policy of governments.

The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state created tool for advancing social and economic policy.

As institutional psychopaths, corporations are wont to remove obstacles that get into their way.

He had pulled out of that grief, eventually – out from under the suffocating weight of it. Suffering had formed him: made him silent and deliberate, thoughtful: deep.

When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

People think I should be a success, but I'm afraid of it.

I am what I am because I have made myself so.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd