Thomas Piketty

'Das Kapital,' I think, is very difficult to read, and for me, it was not very influential.

The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education.

I believe in the power of ideas, I believe in the power of books, but you have to give them time.

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

I generally don't follow domestic news that much aside from how it relates to the stories I'm covering abroad, like what Americans think of the War in Afghanistan.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.