More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

It is my guiding confession that I believe the greatest error in economics is in seeing the economy as a stable, immutable structure.

To see economic policy as a problem of choice between rival ideologies is the greatest error of our time.