There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement and intuition. . .

I talked about the consolidation of power in the hands of the corporate bureaucracy, as distinct from the stockholders. To this view, I still strongly adhere.

One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.

Happiness does not require an expanding economy

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.

If all else fails immortality can always be assured by adequate error.

We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?