Economics is a form of brain damage.

Don't wait for anyone to deputize you or authorize you or empower you. You have to just start out with yourself...and put one foot in front of the other.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.

Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

Economics is really politics in disguise.

I suspected economics was irredeemable as a policy tool for citizens groups. I saw economics lead its practitioners and citizens alike into a form of brain-damaging indoctrination.

And now submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.

I don't think actresses' lives in general are very good

If you don't appear at all one day they think you're lazy or dead.

Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

I feel really blessed because of where I come from.

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.

For me, painting means the continuation of dreaming by other means.

It's been agony but I couldn't have done it any other way.