One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
Jane SmileyThe essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
Jane SmileyThere are several methods for introducing your children to driving, and all of them are bad. Probably the worst is to put it off.
Jane SmileyI love to write about sex. You just have to make it idiosyncratic. You have to have a strong comprehension of your characters, and write it from their point of view. It's really fun. It's not erotic.
Jane Smiley