I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

We were a coven

Everything of value, doesn't come with a price tag

Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

If you know yourself, you are doomed.

We know well only what we are deprived of.

I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.

Americans are not gonna conserve. We're not gonna shift to smaller cars. We can't - we have big, fat kids.

Every breath of air we take is coming from the ocean.

I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.