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

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

Economics exists to make astrology look respectable.

The traveler to the United States will do wellto prepare himself for the class-consciousness of the natives. This differs from the already familiar English version in being more extreme and based more firmly on the conviction that the class to which the speaker belongs is inherently superior to all others.

The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It's a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.