Most Academic Economists Know Nothing Of Economy.

There Are Only Two Kinds Of Books -- Good Books And The Others. The Good Are Winnowed From The Bad Through The Democracy Of Time.

Belief In God? An Afterlife? I Believe In Rock: This Apodictic Rock Beneath My Feet.

Man's Deliberate Destruction Of His Own Habitat -- Planet Earth -- Could Serve As A Mighty Theme For A Mighty Book Worthy Of A Modern Melville Or Tolstoy. But Our Best Fictioneers Confine Themselves To Domestic Drama -- Soap Opera With Literary Trimmings.

I Have Found Through Trial And Error That I Work Best Under Duress. In Fact I Work Only Under Duress.

There Are Two Kinds Of People I Cannot Abide: Bigots And Any Well-organized Ethnic Group.