"I think mental illness or madness can be an escape also. People don't develop a mental illness becau..." — John Forbes Nash, Jr.

The dollar used to be a gold standard currency. And the dollar is really good in the last century, I mean in the 19th century.

I don't think exactly like a professional economist. I think about economics and economic ideas, but somewhat like an outsider.

I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.

If things are not so good, you may be one to imagine something better. For me, I was able to imagine myself as in a role of greater importance than I would seem to be ordinarily.