The world is better served by syncretic economists and policymakers who can hold multiple ideas in their heads than by ‘one-handed’ economists who promote one big idea regardless of context.

What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

To me, life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living.

If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.

A fifeteen-year old, of to save the world, with faries. - Angeline Fowl

I love all the different ways that New Yorkers show their individuality through what they choose to wear.

Russia will occupy most of the good food lands of central Europe while we have the industrial portions. We must find some way of persuading Russia to play ball.

I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior

There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.

An enemy always represents a weakness. This might be fear of physical pain, but it could also be a premature sense of victory or the desire to abandon the fight because it is no longer worthwhile.

At no time, when the astronauts were in space were they alone, there was a constant surveillance by UFOs.