The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

Life is a panic, without a prayer.

Are you the same woman I brought here, Sasha? You're like a kid at Christmastime."--Monroe"You would be, too, if someone fulfilled your most secret fantasies."--Sasha

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

The only thing that counts is a satisfied customer.

The door of God’s mercy is thrown wide open, and Christ stands in the door and says to sinners ‘Come.’

You've got to give people a fair chance of saying what they believe, and then you've got to decide, "Do you believe 'em?"

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart