Did you ever notice that people who are good with a computer don't use it for much of anything except being good with a computer? They know all about information technology, but they don't have much interest in the information. I'm the opposite.

Believing is such a comfort that it's hard to give up a belief just because it isn't true.

If you do see me in a restaurant, please, just let me eat my dinner.

All economists should be locked up until they admit that they don't know what they're talking about.

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

Numbers are the most certain things we have.