There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.

It is useless, after all, to complain against inexorable reality.

The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers and tricksters.

Freedom, privileges, options, must constantly be exercised, even at the risk of inconvenience.

Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century.

I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.

The life we've been leading couldn't last forever. It's a wonder it lasted as long as it did.