In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.

Life is a creation, not a discovery

It could have been so beautiful.The way I learned and got free and swore to never love another person ever againand it could have been so beautiful, the way I actually did.

The stony silence of death, trapped by the original gravity of our sins, and the perpetuity of a long, leisurely yawn, a world where blood and bone no longer matter.

Loving her is strange and confusing and damn risky. And if I had the chance I'd choose it all over again.

Legal immigration is the primary source of low-wage immigration into the United States.

Yeah, I'd be happy to go back to Mexico or Japan to make another film.

I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.