News media stimulate bubbles, since stories about them boost their audience.

In the longer run and for wide-reaching issues, more creative solutions tend to come from imaginative interdisciplinary collaboration.

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

Some of the best theorizing comes after collecting data because then you become aware of another reality.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

Economics is (now) about emotion and psychology.

I am worried that the collapse of home prices might turn out to be the most severe since the Great Depression.

Consider our difficulties avoiding junk food and overspending. Such addictions were carefully planned-for by professional marketing teams.

Somehow, talking to young students brings you back to reality - it should, anyway.

Liberalism downplays certain of our moral senses: loyalty, authority, and sanctity.

How much your life sucks, or how awesome your life is, is really all determined by how much fear controls your life.

On any day - in any given event - you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

To have a positive influence on someone's life is a blessing.

As I let go of the need to arrange my life, the universe brings abundant good to me.

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

I remember my friends and I looking forward to puberty because it seemed exciting at first.

Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

Protection of children from violence and abuse has always been my main activity or campaign.