I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries.

A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue to the State.

Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?

My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

I love boating - not flash, 'noisy go fast' nonsense, but the general relaxation of it. My wife and I love to get in our little Wellcraft and go as far out to sea as we can, hopefully beyond land. That is the best thing you can ever do. It clears your psyche.

There's no such thing as a free lunch

After scolding ones cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Common sense is strengthened by joy.

We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their companies - not to mention their own liberty - at risk by engaging in flagrant and foolhardy illegal conduct.

Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Television news was expanding to an hour, and producers did not know how to fill the space and time.

No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee.

I hate going to fashion shows. I find them boring.

When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Being single is definitely better than being with the wrong person.

Back in the '90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

I was born in New Jersey but grew up mostly in Florida. My dad died when I was 8.

A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of he always declares that it is his duty.

Being the same is so last season.

I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune.

I am proud of Kirk. I think he drums to his own drummer in every way.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

A diploma only proves that you know how to look up answers.