This is the twilight of the banks. It would be a more cheerful spectacle if we could envision the dawn of the institutions that will replace them

Except for the con men borrowing money they shouldn't get and the widows who have to visit with the handsome young men in the trust department, no sane person ever enjoyed visiting a bank.

Deposit insurance has proved to be the crack cocaine of American finance.

People can be committed to a mental institution only after judicial hearing, but people are committed to schools beyond the reach of Habeas Corpus.

Going back to something is harder than you think.

Man needs difficult times for reflection and personal growth.

Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

Dying people often become childish.

The past is history, the future's a mystery.

India is content with itself, and driven by the will to sit on the high table of prosperity. It will not be deflected in its mission by noxious practitioners of terror.

The more pictures you see, the better you are as a photographer.