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

I like to do my principal research in bars, where people are more likely to tell the truth or, at least, lie less convincingly than they do in briefings and books.

Government does not cause affluence. Citizens of totalitarian countries have plenty of government and nothing of anything else.

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

West Germans are tall, pink, pert and orthodontically corrected, with hands, teeth and hair as clean as their clothes and clothes as sharp as their looks. Except for the fact that they all speak English pretty well, they're indistinguishable from Americans.

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.