I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.

As to describing me as an outsider throughout, and an outsider through and through - I have no reason to disagree.

Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.

In a liquid modern life there are no permanent bonds, and any that we take up for a time must be tied loosely so that they can be untied again, as quickly and as effortlessly as possible, when circumstances change - as they surely will in our liquid modern society, over and over again.

The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master and how hard people need to struggle to learn it.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.

Most young people today prefer just to move in together and stay together as long, but no longer, as satisfaction lasts.