With no sense of smell, your memories dropped like pennies out of a ripped pocket, until the past was ashes and your parents were blanks: nothing more than the holes in Swiss cheese.

Loss was a night that never ended.

A teacher asked me once, what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her a clown and she asked me if I was joking

The privilege of creating and issuing money is not only the supreme prerogative of government, but it is the government's greatest creative opportunity.

One of the advantages of travelling the world is that you get to know the world broadly. And one of the advantages of staying in one place is that you get to know the world deeply.

Mix and knead together all the state business as you do for your sausages. To win the people, always cook them some savory that pleases them.

Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.

Let us remember that all reforms are interdependent, and that whatever is done to establish one principle on a solid base, strengthens all.

Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

McCarthy generally, as an individual, was a liberal. He was, in economic philosophy and a lot of other things, extremely liberal.