If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.
Everybody knows how to utter a complaint, but few can express a graceful compliment.
If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.
I have won every argument I ever had with myself.
One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.
The happiest people are those who are too busy to notice whether they are or not.
She understood his eyes, colder than winter's heart. A man who knew he was dead and couldn't make himself care; you are spared that. Mashiara. His lost love.
When I was a kid, I dreamed of using a bat with my own name on it.
Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power is global. We have an elite that now floats in global flows. It could care less about the nation-state, and it could care less about traditional forms of politics. Hence, it makes no political concessions whatsoever. It attacks unions, it attacks public schools, it attacks public goods. It doesn't believe in the social contract.