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.

James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.