The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the front of an oncoming train.
We have a terrific economy, it's like a great athlete that's had a cardiac arrest.
When the Federal government buys the mortgages, they're not spending it, they're investing it.
I don't think it would be crazy to have a model or an entity model on the Reconstruction Finance Corp. That goes back to 1932, although it was really implemented in '33 under Jesse Jones, and it invested in mostly banks initially and preferred stock and that sort of thing.
Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.
You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you've had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early '80s.
The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.
We create the illusions we need to go on.
My idea of a good novel was one you made enough money out of to buy a greenhouse.
Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.
I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.