Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race

It is not a zero sum game. The simple idea of the gains from trade lies at the heart of the modern and the ancient economy, not the power of capital. There is nothing else to it.

The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.

Simple determinism, whether of the genetic or environmental kind, is a depressing prospect for those with a fondness for free will.

Uniqueness is the commodity of glut.

The message from history is so blatantly obvious - that free trade causes mutual prosperity while protectionism causes poverty - that it seems incredible that anybody ever thinks otherwise. There is not a single example of a country opening its borders to trade and ending up poorer.

The interaction of genetic and external influences makes my behaviour unpredictable, but not undetermined. In the gap between those words lies freedom.