There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

If you love a person, you can forgive anything.

Luckily for me, I loved books. Books can enlighten but can also benight, but at least one can play one off against another.

Just the thought of you and all the universe conspires against me.

Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.

I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.

The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him.

Probably, the single most prevalent claim advanced by the proponents of a new paradigm is that they can solve the problems that led the old one to a crisis.

As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure.