In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that we undertake.

I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington.

To predict the future we would have to know today what we will learn tomorrow which will shape our future actions

My record at the University of California as an undergraduate was mediocre to say the best.

My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

The big bad monster wasn't green and hiding under the bed, it wore tasteless floral prints, bright scarlet lipstick and sat in the kitchen smoking and saying 'bollocks' alot.

Peace begins with a touch of unconditional love.

I know a lie when I hear one.

The perspective is more important than the perception

Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.

You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.

My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.