No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.

What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

You don’t see what I see.

I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.

My paintings are certainly nonobjective. They're just horizontal lines. There's not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

The works have to look like they're confident. But they also have to look sort of troubled. It's this weird thing: "Does that look confident and troubled?" It's a bit like difficult poetry.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

The only reason I am glad I am a woman is because I will not have to marry one.

I softly sink into the bath of sleep: With eyelids shut, I see around me close The mottled, violet vapors of the deep, That wraps me in repose.

I never sent promotional copies to Christian radio stations in my life. It's not what I'm interested in.

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

Anybody who thinks there's not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg.