The Treasury model of the economy has been pretty well wrong on everything for many years

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

War on the cheap is always a rotten policy.

Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

For what is more lovable than failure?

They say the truth will set you free, but what they neglect to mention is what happens when the truth isn't what you want to hear.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

There can be no civil peace without the rule of law.

We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.

I'll always protect what I'm working on. Which is why more and more of it is stuff only I can ruin.

The idea of retirement seems to imply that you stop doing what you always did. Why would you do that? I don't get that.

I don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes.