I don't care very much for the People Magazine approach to applied economics.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

An intriguing paradox of the 1990s is that it isn't called a decade of greed.

I don't care who writes a nation's laws - or crafts its advanced treaties - if I can write its economics textbooks.

Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear - and what they want to hear is what won't happen.

Macroeconomics, even with all of our computers and with all of our information - is not an exact science and is incapable of being an exact science.

What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.

Every good cause is worth some inefficiency.

A growing nation is the greatest ponzi game ever contrived.

Profits are the lifeblood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things depend ultimately. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer.

Investing should be more like watching paint dry or watching grass grow. If you want excitement, take $800 and go to Las Vegas.

I’m a natural-born ninja saddled with the awkward grace of a drunk camel.

Modesty was hardly a priority in her mind until now. Now she had been cast from Hell and again knew shame.

your life can change in an instant. that instant can last forever.

I think a lot of times we can get distracted and not be in the moment with people and be missing all the life happening in the moment.

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

It's funny that people think because you don't have a movie or record out, you disappear into a frozen chamber someplace. They think you're dead when you're not in the public eye.

Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men.

Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.

I've been able to perform in front of thousands of people on stage in a character that's nothing like me. I'm very shy.