If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.

Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn't dirty, you haven't been in the game.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

Having a job is being busy

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

That's always the worst: the not knowing. Because then you're stuck with a hundred questions no one can answer.

Great literary works are not measured by the number of words, but by the impact they create.

I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

Taxes are a penalty on progress.

I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.