I was fifteen in college at Tulane. I lied about my age in college so that I could be normal socially. So that girls would go out with me and stuff like that. I just said I was normal age.

There is too large a divergence at the moment in the interests and values of the world's most powerful states.

An emerging market is a country where politics matters at least as much as economics to the market.

I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Sometimes you check things off because you've done them. If you aren't checking stuff off your bucket list, you aren't living very well.

The government has to be on the side of the people if the corporations take too much power.

In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state.

Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power.

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in everyone's life. How it was a part of their very identity.

NASA is increasingly not the future of space exploration. I love the fact that we have private sector folks devoting a lot of money to stimulate innovation in space technology.

When we were monkeys, we were more human because we were at least not destroying the nature those days!

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.

Out where the handclasp's a little stronger, Out where the smile dwells a little longer, That's where the West begins.

When I'm playing best, I'm just thinking about the music, just interacting with what my bandmates are playing.

If a body catch a body coming through the rye.

Very small investments can release the infinite potential that lies in all of us.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

Those who think govern those who labor.

All genuine learning is active, not passive. It involves the use of the mind, not just the memory. It is a process of discovery, in which the student is the main agent, not the teacher.

Though I have considerable interest in Europe and in traveling, I am most content with simply working and allowing the world that I'm creating to unfold before my eyes.