I was suffering from my chronic delusion that one good share is safer than ten bad ones, and I am always forgetting that hardly anyone else shares this particular delusion.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

I didn’t think it was possible — but this situation has managed to get worse.” “But you’re so calm, ” she observed.“That’s usually when you can tell everything has gone to shit.

When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

I was probably 35 when I wrote the first story. The voice is kind of a mix in that it has a young voice, but it's also someone who's looking back. I like that kind of double vision.

There are some casual fans who think you're going to dominate a game, be magic, score 10 goals. Even if you dominate a game, you'll only score two or three goals.

In the state of emptiness, you are the action not the performer of the action. Allow an activity or event to take precedence over your own point of view.

I got born in the wrong family.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

Sometimes to realize you were well, someone must come along and hurt you.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.