The anti-resource curse initiative has stronger legs than most and that has made me very enthusiastic.

My main concern is with the world order

The main obstacle to further progress on the resource curse is China, and to a lesser extent India.

The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things considered, wisdom was to be preferred to power.

If you are humble enough to admit to your flaws then you are capable of correcting them.

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down. The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments.

The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

It's as if cats live in a seperate universe that takes up the same space as ours, but is full of facinating things like mice or sparrows or special TV programs that we can't see.

When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That's the natural role of any army in the world.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.