"In reading the economics journals and talking with newly-minted PhDs, it is as if Keynesian economics never existed."

"In the same book , I said if I was given a chance to identify with any character on television, I would choose Spock. I admire him, I like him and I respect him. I would rather be identified with Spoc…"

"It's yet another mark of Auden's superiority that whereas his contemporaries could be didactic about what they had merely thought or read, Auden could be tentative about what he felt in his bones."

"Our treatment plants will always be ready to receive the literary outpourings emanating from his most humane soil"

"Jack: You'll have to compromise, smile, concern yourself with your public image, measure your words as carefully as possible... and turn yourself into a dutiful party hack! Never mind, Nigel, never mi…"