Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?

During the mid-1980s dairy farmers decided there was too much cheap milk at the supermarket. So the government bought and slaughtered 1.6 million dairy cows. How come the government never does anything like this with lawyers?

Cars would be safer on rails!

The complexity of economics can be calculated mathematically. Write out the algebraic equation that is the human heart and multiply each unknown by the population of the world.

When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.

I'm here as a radio journalist but am not even sure which part of a tape recorder takes the pictures.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.