The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the latter get far more than they need...But could anything seriously be done about it?

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

A wrong decision isn't forever; it can always be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved.

People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.

The oldest [John Kenneth] Galbraith rule is that when you hear that a new era has dawned, you should take cover.