Non-fiction Quotes

95% of economics is common sense

What alternative is there to the media’s “Us” versus “Them”? The danger is that if it is used to pro...

Psychologically speaking (I’ll only wheel out the amateur psychology just this once, so bear with me...

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

Just how common do such savageries have to be for a decent person to be unable to overlook them? If ...

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing origin...

He looks at houses, chateaus, forests, and thinks about the countless generations who used to see th...

When you make a film, if you are an insider, you're usually the last person to know that your film i...

The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no t...

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully u...

He believed the press was doing its job, but, in the absence of candor from the committee, it had re...

Bernstein was impressed by Sloan's thoughtfulness. Sloan seemed convinced that the President, whom h...

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an ...

Nonfiction that smells like fiction is neither.

It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a strange...