In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained.

...it is distressing how often one can guess the answer given to an economic question merely by knowing who asks it.

I attended schools in Seattle through the University of Washington, from which I was graduated in 1931. I spent the next year at Northwestern University.

The main insight learned from interdisciplinary studies is the return to specialization

Competition is a tough weed, not a delicate flower.

There is only one social science and we are its practitioners

If you never miss a plane, you’re spending too much time at the airport.

My teaching began in 1936 at Iowa State College where T. W. Schultz was the department chairman.

I recall my mother asking in about 1946 what I was and I replied proudly that I was a professor. A decade later she repeated her question and I repeated my answer. "No promotion?" was her comment.

Theories are not rejected by cirsumstantial evidence: it takes a theory to beat a theory.

It was in the 1960s that I began the detailed study of public regulation.

All he did was breathe life into my soul. I was a conquest. An easy one, and you don't know how badly it hurts to know that I was used and tried for a time. Then thrown back.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Briony began to understand the chasm that lay between an idea and its execution.

Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.