There's no question that in my lifetime, the contrast between what I called private affluence and public squalor has become very much greater.

Where humor is concerned there are no standards - no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.

Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

Agriculture is one economic activity that does not obey the laws of demand and supply.

The ideas by which people . . . interpret their existence and in measure guide their behavior, were not forged in a world of wealth.