"Virtue is when the income you wish to show the tax agency exceeds what you wish to show your neighbor."

"Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them; nerdiness the reverse."

"The curse of modernity is that we are increasingly populated by a class of people who are better at explaining than understanding, or better at explaining than doing."

"Medieval man was a cog in a wheel he did not understand; modern man is a cog in a complicated system he thinks he understands."

"The fastest way to become rich is to socialize with the poor; the fastest way to become poor is to socialize with the rich."