Pan Am can go to hell.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.

If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

It is up to you to cultivate your field of mind in order to grow golden crops.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

These people are real to me, and situations keep coming up where their emergence feels natural. It's like meeting old friends. I hope readers feel the same way.

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

Don't ask to live in tranquil times. Literature doesn't grow there.