It's not Utopian to believe that we can create a global registry of financial assets so we know who owns what in different countries.

Wealth is so concentrated that a large segment of society is virtually unaware of its existence.

We want capitalism and market forces to be the slave of democracy rather than the opposite.

It's important to realize that innovation and growth in itself are not sufficient to moderate inequality of wealth.

When inequality gets to an extreme, it is completely useless for growth.

Our modern democratic ideal is based on the hope that inequalities will be based on merit more than inheritance or luck.

No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.

Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.

Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.

At the heart of every major political upheaval lies a fiscal revolution.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.

The thing I know how to do most is write a play. I came up loving plays and learning about plays and writing plays. I actually feel like an outsider when I'm writing movies and television.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

there are lots of ways of answering a letter - and writing doesn't happen to be mine.

The hungrier one becomes, the clearer one's mind works— also the more sensitive one becomes to the odors of food.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.

Sometimes you just get giggles leprosy and it can't be helped. I find that there's a direct correlation between fatigue and breaking.

If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.