“One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.”

“One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.”

“That is the inescapable math of tragedy and the multiplication of grief. Too many good people die a little when they lose someone they love. One death begets two or twenty or one hundred. It's the same all over the world.”

“...the special interests are almost everybody. Everybody perceives they stand to lose if the economy is allowed to evolve. They are right if their special-interest favoritism is the only favoritism that is fixed. The result...is that nobody is giving up their favoritism. In these circumstances everybody loses...”

“When all the thoughts are concerning one thing and the person loses interest in other things, the melancholy begins.”

“Your life is inescapable. Unless you decide to escape it.”