The companies aren't hiring, because consumers don't have enough money to buy the goods and services.

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.

The acknowledgement of having suffered evil is the greatest step forward in mental health.

Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.

Your only shame is to have shame.

The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Age is a limit we impose on ourselves.

To read without joy is stupid.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

Sure, President Bush can say that the U.S. government won't fund stem cell research, but believe me, Japan is applauding. Because they will just do it first and get all the patents.

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.