John Maynard Keynes

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.

There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism.

Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

It's important that the adults appreciate that young people are capable of doing really astounding work.