Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.

The Holy Spirit speaks sacred words.

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down and spreads to your hips.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.

In honesty, there are probably a lot of stories that can be told with Batman. I like the idea of him growing older and he can't quite do it as much anymore.

I'm not someone who likes to plan too much ahead.

A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.