No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

I certainly agree that capital is not a one-dimensional object, and that the return on capital takes very different forms for different assets or different people.

Tonight, can we just pretend you want me too?

It is in the nest of disappointment where depression lays its eggs.

By seizing every opportunity for kindness, forgiveness, healing, and love that crosses my path each day, I hope that my death, although perhaps sad for some, will be gracefully concluded.

I believe that in a contest between the living and the almost living, the latter must, if necessary, give way to the will of the former.

That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

I stood up. It was all too much. I could not even meet my own expectations, and to be asked to deal with all theirs too was suffocating.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism.