No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.