"When you're leaving your teenage kids alone, probably a good idea to let them know you're going to be checking in on them occasionally. I suspect Greenspan missed that part."

"In the last 21 months, if you've learnt anything, it's that the state is back. If the free market fails, it's not because it's been defeated by state capitalism; the only people that can defeat the free market is us, we're the only ones who can destroy it."

"State capitalism is about more than emergency government spending, implementation of more intelligent regulation, or a stronger social safety net. It’s about state dominance of economic activity for political gain."

"Everyone's talked about Bank of America and Citigroup and the rest being too big to fail, but no, no, no. The most important point...is that the US must be perceived to be too big to fail."

"I believe that if you go and ask a chief executive of a Goldman Sachs or a BP, and they answer you honestly...they want monopolies, they want government subsidies, they want preferences – they're not interested in free markets.""

"It's not a third way between state capitalism and free markets, it is the free market way. Multi-national corporations should be the principal actors, but they should be properly regulated."

"The great thing about the U.S. economy right now is that we are the smart kids in the stupid-kid class. America has fiscal problems and gridlock issues and polarity and partisanship in Congress -- and yet, compared to Japan and Europe, the U.S. looks great."

"Up until now Washington has worried that terrorists will become hackers. Perhaps we all should worry that hackers will become terrorists."

"The G-Zero isn't aspirational, it's analytic. Unfortunately, it's also where we are."

"Authoritarian governments are now trying to ensure that the increasingly free flow of ideas and information through cyberspace fuels their economies without threatening their political power."

"Money talks: financing the periphery buys Berlin a leading role recasting the eurozone governance framework. The recent ‘six pack’ of legislative reforms hints at what’s to come: institutionalized fiscal discipline and an excessive imbalances procedure that protects against future moral hazard. The whole eurozone will tilt toward the German surplus model as we get more fiscal integration and more German leverage."

"The great thing about partisanship is you don't have to spend time understanding the issues to know what side you're on."

"In China, the state controls the corporations, whereas in the United States, the corporations control the state."

"It's very clear to me–you do not want corporations captured by states. Equally you do not want states captured by corporations."

"The free market tide has now receded. In its place has come state capitalism, a system in which the state functions as the leading economic actor and uses markets primarily for political gain."

"When we have been humiliated by someone we love, it takes all our strength to pretend to recover from it."

"Anything you lose automatically doubles in value."

"When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling."

"What you can't get out of, get into whole-heartedly."

"It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it."

"It is a feeling at once stimulating and flat, to know that someone you do not love is in love with you."

"The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever."

"When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right."

"Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway."

"Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name."

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

"A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles."

"If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious."

"The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind."

"We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might."

"Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones."

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."

"The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued."

"Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before."

"No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved."

"The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius."

"Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it."

"People who won't have a TV set in their house get more pleasure from their refusal than most of us get from TV."

"Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be."

"No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it."

"If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream."

"Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain."

"Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and difficult as that."

"I am as I am" is another way of saying "I can do without your love."

"Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news."

"At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic."

"A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners."

"Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself."

"The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all."

"If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday."