Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.