The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it's the story itself that is the reincarnation.

In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold.

First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.

The invisible hand never picks up the check.

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing.

You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot.