All crises have involved debt that, in one fashion or another, has become dangerously out of scale in relation to the underlying means of payment.

Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

Things that come from the private sector are in abundant supply; things that depend on the public sector are widely a problem. We're a world, as I said in The Affluent Society, of filthy streets and clean houses, poor schools and expensive television.

We are becoming the servants in thought, as in action of the machine we have created to serve us.

I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoiding muscular energy, for increasing sensual pleasure and enhancing caloric intake above any conceivable nutritional requirement.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?