Is this complicated, risky [banking] system the best we can have?

Typical reaction to scrutiny: attack and mock messenger and message, minimize the problem, hope attention dies down.

Beware of economists who hide assumptions.

The politics of banking is bad everywhere, including UK. Eurozone has more problems, unhealthy symbiosis.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head

A very talented player and all around excellent musician. I love hearing his records on radio!

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

The rightness of a thing isn't determined by the amount of courage it takes.

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.

The message is going to be the same. It's very simple. We're either going to turn to each other or on each other.

When people doubt your abilities, the greatest joy on earth is making them eat their words.