“Sometimes seeming happy can be self-destructive even when you’re sane.”

These $100 bills aren’t meant to circulate. They’re not to spend on goods and services. They’re a store of value. They’re a form of saving.

I don’t aim to offend.

On the flat tax, the more you compress the tax rates, the more you untax where the income is really made, at the top of the pyramid.

Emotional stability and expression comes from women.

If you look at payments to labor as a proportion of national income or gross domestic product, you find profits going way up, investment and savings going up.

When people are running up more and more debt for housing, they call that “real wealth.” It exposes what’s wrong in the mainstream economics and why most of the economics that justifies austerity programs and economic shrinkage is in the textbooks is not scientific.

A science is not mere knowledge, it is knowledge which has undergone a process of intellectual digestion. It is the grasp of many things brought together in one, and hence is its power; for, properly speaking, it is Science that is power, not Knowledge.

Russia was under the impression that the neoliberal advisors were going to make Russia as rich as the United States. What they really did was create a kleptocracy that was virtually tax-free.

When you say “paying the banks,” what they really mean is paying the bank bondholders. They are basically the One Percent.

There are two definitions of deflation. Most people think of it simply as prices going down. But debt deflation is what happens when people have to spend more and more of their income to carry the debts that they’ve run up – to pay their mortgage debt, to pay the credit card debt, to pay student loans.

I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Seventy-eight percent of millennials are worried about not having enough good paying job opportunity to pay off their student loans. Seventy-four percent can’t pay the health care if they get sick.

People are putting their money into treasuries because they worry that the risk of putting their money into the bond market, the stock market or even the money markets is very high.

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren’t good. Drinking’s not good. Some would say milk’s not good.

I think the less fracking there is, the better it is for the economy and society.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

Don’t try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We’re all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat – and the boat is perpetually sinking.

No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.

Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

Good sex isn’t just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.