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"We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography?"
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"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
"I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years."
"I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era."
"Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?"
"An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing."
"I was so incensed that I was oblivious to all as I ran over broken glass, holding a five-foot weightlifting bar. The glass tore the soles of my feet as I chased the gang's car up the street. I remember breathing heavily as I cursed failing to catch my enemies."
"Violence was second nature to the psychopathic and ultra-violent Stephen Moyle, who was already a seasoned street fighter, after having half his face torn off in a street fight with three other men."
"Back then I had muscles on my muscles, I was tattooed and tanned, wore the tightest of jeans to accentuate my snakelike waist and the whitest of tight vests to accentuate my muscle packed torso. To top it all off, I had the nicest piece of eye-candy on my arm in the form of a stunning, long-legged, mini skirted blonde."
Explore more quotes by John Kenneth Galbraith
"In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability."
"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting."
"The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor."
"There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished."
"Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom."
"We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much."
"By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man."
"You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too."
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
"Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not."
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