It's quite astonishing how much money people make in the hedge fund business and in the private equity field, and how well-off affluent families really are.

Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.

I think that a lot of the money - these big bills - is used to facilitate tax evasion and crime.

People aren't looking at how they're doing, but rather at how their neighbors are doing and at their own place in society.

I don't think it's time yet to eliminate cash, but I propose having a less-cash society, not a cashless one.

Cash is very easy to hide. It's easy to hoard. It's easy to move, especially these large bills.

I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

Unbridled capitalism will lead to some very real problems.

The assertion that everyone benefits simultaneously from free trade is simply incorrect.

We're not just going to see mid-sized banks go under in the next few months, we're going to see a whopper.

Global markets have a much bigger effect on prices and wages in the U.S. and elsewhere than they did before.

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine

Abandoning civil society will leave the enemy in control, not by victory but by default.

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

It is not given to our weak intellects to understand the steps of Providence as they occur: we comprehend them only as we look back upon them in the far-distant past.

Everyone's always interested in a dark theme, especially when there's humor connected to it. It seems like that helps, if that's an integral and organic part of the whole story.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity