"I play golf - even though I'm awful at it."

"I am many things, but one of the things I am is a lesbian."

"Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it."

"You hear the word 'cancer,' and you think it is a death sentence. In fact, the shock is the biggest thing about a diagnosis of cancer."

"Spending time at the Federal Reserve was a good learning opportunity for me. It helped me to understand economic philosophies and polices that I had not previously known about."

"The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people."

"This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one."

"I like to take a long time over breakfast, and I can't bear to talk. If a guest is a breakfast talker it's very important to invite another so they can talk to each other. Otherwise they spoil the newspaper reading and everything else."