Also, it's good to have more than one profession, in case your own profession goes out of style. A Wall Street trader who's also a belly dancer will do a lot better than a trader who winds up driving a taxi.

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.

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse

What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.

You exist if and only if you are free to do things without a visible objective, with no justification and, above all, outside the dictatorship of someone else's narrative.

Modernity has replaced ethics with legalese, and the law can be gamed with a good lawyer.