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

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.

Pan Am can go to hell.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

I don't see why a poem couldn't be spoken out a car window or written on the beach at low tide. In fact, I'm sure people are doing it.

My last book was speculative. I just don't quite know what I am doing. But I'll get there. I have a list of things I would love to write.

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Botany, the science of the vegetable kingdom, is one of the most attractive, most useful, and most extensive departments of human knowledge. It is, above every other, the science of beauty.

Poetry should only occupy the idle.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

I try to be straightforward and honest with my kids, and I believe nothing beats good old hard work.