If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

When everything else failed, we can still become immortal by making an enormous blunder.

Some things were never meant to be recycled.

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.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

A very complicated mass of things influences the economy - the speculative effect, government policy, consumer borrowing and spending, the level of technical innovation (which I concede, although everyone emphasizes it too much), and much more - including, of course, the rate of inflation.