No price is too high to pay to try to make the financial system go on a little bit longer. But ultimately it can't be saved, because of the mathematics that are involved.

We go forward with our heads held high, but look back and remember where we come from.

You have a choice. Either you can have more oil, or more clean water. Fracking is not good for the water supply.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

What's bad for the frackers usually is good for the rest of the world.

Nothing could be better for the economy than to get rid of fracking.

Every government, from the Obama administration right through to Angela Merkel, the Eurozone and the IMF, promise to save the banks, not the economy.

Elites play the role today that landlords played under feudalism. They levy interest and financial fees that are like a tax, to support what the classical economists called "unproductive activity."

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

We're still in the collapse that began after 2008. There's not a new collapse, there hasn't been a recovery.

To the deficit commission, a depression is the solution to the problem, not a problem.

Guilt is a waste of time unless you learn how to be more loving the next time a similar situation presents itself.

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

I'm a risk manager, but I'm also a risk taker.

Our ideas are transformed sensations.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

I don't change. The things around me change.

I sleep well. It's the politicians who are to blame for failing to come to an agreement and resorting to violence.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

I will take my coffee black / never snack / hang with the wolves who are sheepish.