Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time-- but I want you to try.

Life insurance is a commodity.