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.

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.

In numerous years following the war, the Federal Government ran a heavy surplus. It could not (however) pay off its debt, retire its securities, because to do so meant there would be no bonds to back the national bank notes. To pay off the debt was to destroy the money supply.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Superficial observers have long criticized the United States for making a fetish of youth. This is unfair. Uniquely among modern organs of public and private administration, its national legislature rewards senility.

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

The huge capacity to purchase submission that goes with any large sum of money, well, this we have. This is a power of which we should all be aware.