The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Love yourself. Care for your body. You are God’s image.

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.

Live your life. The reset button has been pushed.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

I can't think of any bank robbery comedy where it's about two normal guys. It's kind of like Superbad meets Heat, which is a cool combo, and it's just fun doing a normal guy that's robbing a bank.

My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.

If it weren't for men, this planet would be overrun with giant spiders.

If there is no way out, the best course of action is to find a way further in.

If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky.

Do, What you're going to do in longevity. Not just what happens tomorrow.