“It means the US can’t borrow with ‘exorbitant privilege’ anymore.”

And it means the US Treasury market is set for an out-of-control interest rate spiral.

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security.

No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

Essentially would be the death knell to the US Dollar as the reserve currency.

The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally.

In all fairness, you should point out the difference.

For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff.

The real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

That’s the illusion – the idea that you can be all right on the inside and not act it out – and it has affected us in many ways. That’s a part of the idea that professing is enough.

Probably I’m more of a fan of the literary references than the pop-culture references. But I do go to the pop-culture well quite frequently because people, I think, are sort of inherently ready to laugh at that. It’s a free laugh almost. Usually, everybody gets it.

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

Such words as ‘God’ and ‘Death’ and ‘Suffering’ and ‘Eternity’ are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing corn or the falling rain. We must just be.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul.

Skeptics would rather, even at their own expense, appear to be right than take the risk of trusting.

After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble.

Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.