Rationalism crashes in the tails.

People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels - people you don't want to resemble when you grow up

I want to live happily in a world I don’t understand.

The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once. And someone who has made plenty of errors-though never the same error more than once-is more reliable than someone who has never made any.