Men will not always die quietly.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

I have found life so beautiful.

The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.

I keep trying to define poetry, but its so difficult.

Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.

To wait, to patiently sit in the dark without knowing what the outcome will be, to protect and respect that which has yet no clear form - all these are aspects of the womb.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

To go to San Diego is everything. It's literally everything. It's the ultimate dream. It's the big one.

Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile