I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.

The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Being a wiseass in a groupthink environment is like throwing an egg at a bulldozer.

Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.

I'm a product of an East Coast liberal arts educational system.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.

Mike Huckabee represents something that is either tremendously encouraging or deeply disturbing, depending on your point of view: a marriage of Christian fundamentalism with economic populism.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Why is JP Morgan getting so much heat? Maybe because it is a massive international crime syndicate.

Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.

A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?

Piece by piece, my mother is being stolen from me.

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

Enlightenment is being able to go to your own home and feel comfortable.

Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.