Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

In economics, it is often professionally better to be associated with highly respectable error than uncertainly established truth.

Let the mind contemplate, let the pen scribble, the oeuvre would be eccentric, peculiar to a reader's eye.

With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

That's the great thing about the 'Sin City' movies. Each little slot is incredibly meaningful, and each character has their own moment.

Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

I started realizing I have enough history that some of it has been forgotten.

It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.

Oliver [Goldstick] is a very dynamic and imaginative writer, so the stage directions were visceral and very clearly written.