I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

Whether we like it or not, the one justification for the existence of all religions is death, they need death as much as we need bread to eat.

Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

The entire human race faced a singularity when one small group discovered, ooh, technology. We can live a different way. Eventually, that spelled the death of the old way of life.

To me, sexy is the confident energy a person produces. sexy is the comfortable feeling of being who you are. sexy is not just having beautiful lips, legs and arms; its beyond that. sexy is soul.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.

I’m so worried that I’m going to perfect [my] technique someday. I have to say its unfortunate how many of my pictures do depend upon some technical error.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

Enlightenment is just another word for feeling comfortable with being a completely ordinary person.