“Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drill...” — Kenneth Fisher Quote

“Fracking opens up vast tracts of the U.S. to exploitation by gas drillers. There's enough energy under our feet to last us for decades, maybe centuries.”

“Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise.”

“If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.”

“France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.”

“Languages are something of a mess. They evolve over centuries through an unplanned, democratic process that leaves them teeming with irregularities, quirks, and words like 'knight.'”

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art is unsurpassed at presenting more than 50 centuries of work. I go there constantly, seeing things over and over, better than I've ever seen them before.”