Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

When the facts change, I change my mind.

It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong.

The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.

If farming were to be organised like the stock market, a farmer would sell his farm in the morning when it was raining, only to buy it back in the afternoon when the sun came out.

The outstanding faults of the economic society in which we live are its failure to provide for full employment and its arbitrary and inequitable distribution of wealth and incomes.

Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

In the black chaos where the seas and the skies become confused let the projectors blow their white trumpets of silence("Roundness")

Love, at its best, wipes commonsenseAway. Much as drops will condenseFrom hidden liquid in the air, So, too, do lovers soon compareTheir temp’ratures til, happily, Their judgement fogs up suddenly.

The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.

My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

never believe a man can change a woman those men are pretenders who think that they created women from one of their ribs

I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.

She saw him fracture into rainbow colors through the prism of her love.