More From James Buchan
- "Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice."
- "Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money."
- "Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children’s Fund and Oxfam to the ‘Jesus Brigades’ of the American south and other charitable adventurers."
More In Power
- "I learned about the market’s power when I was traded to the Buffalo Bills for $100."― Jack Kemp
- "I don’t think I’m a great songwriter, but I think I’ve learned a lot about it, and I don’t think there’s any one way to do it. I don’t think I can control it at all. I can just kind of hope that it happens."― Norah Jones
- "If you want to be loved, be lovable."― Ovid