Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.
It (land value taxation) guarantees that no one dispossess fellow citizens by obtaining a disproportionate share of what nature provides for humanity.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.
There is no real justification for a requirement that a budget of any sort should be balanced, except as a rallying point for those who seek to hamstring government.
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
Deficits do not in themselves produce inflation, nor does a balanced budget assure a stable price level.
Most people’s religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?
Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.
The goal of astrology is the alchemy of personality. It is to transform chaos into cosmos, collective human nature into individual and creative personality.