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

The carrying power of a bridge is not the average strength of the pillars, but the strength of the weakest pillar. I have always believed that you do not measure the health of a society by GNP but by the condition of its worst off.

Freedom without security portends chaos, perpetual anxiety and fear.

A whole world is taken to the grave with the dead person; each one of us is unique and unrepeatable.

I guess my claustrophobia is incurable - feeling, as I tend to, ill at ease in any closed room, and always tempted to find out what is on the other side of the door.

Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.

It is more or less clear that one idea which should emerge from the crash, whatever happens with the attempts to save the banks from bankruptcy and people from being evicted from their homes, is that this kind of life is unsustainable. We cannot go on like this... something must be done.