He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.

Madness is not enlightenment, but the search for enlightenment is often mistaken for madness.

Experiment and reason, tempered by intuition, were to him preferable to solid plodding in the well-trodden paths of experience.

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

At present", Keynes said in 1926, "everything is politics, and nothing policies.

Never dare to lower your self-confidence in order to please those who can't stand you because you strongly believe in your abilities.

Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree.

I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating

I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate

Messi is a genius. He has everything. When I watch him, I see a player who is very, very skilful, very clever and his left foot is like Diego Maradona's.

You can have a great lyric and a so-so melody; it's going to be a tough sell.

From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds.

Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.

The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.