If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

A lot of my colleagues have been people with broad interests in economics, not just narrowly focused interests.

I think the understanding of the role of markets has really helped advance the values of entrepreneurship. Its helped shape public policy discussions in a whole variety of ways.

I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

In general, the final filter of Hollywood is for-profit. Nothing goes through unless it can make money.

I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.

I feel like fame is wasted on me.

A climb of eight hundred feet starts where the foot stands.