He wants to write a general interest book that will last for many generations. He is loaded with anecdotes and goes from one to the next.

It is a singular honor for The Penguin Press to publish Alan Greenspan, who has spent his extraordinary career reckoning with how the world really works. His book will be about what we can know, what we can't know and what we should do about it.

Our main interest is conserving the scenery and the wildlife in the park for generations to come, and one way to do that is through knowledge. So those cameras are a good way to get that information.

A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument

Hundreds of anecdotes I could relate. It may happen that the pages I am now scribbling over, may hereafter be published.