“I assume I don't need an introduction.”

“He is a world-class player who needs no introductions.”

“As a reader I loathe introductions… Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.”

“I don't need time, I need a deadline.”

“It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.”

“I believe people can solve complex problems eventually. By repeated trial and error they will get there; but they need a long time. At this point I agree with Herbert Simon. People do not learn immediately, as those rational expectations models seem to imply. I don't believe that.
The statement that assumptions do not matter is nonsense. It is funny. Yes, I assume people are consistent in their behavior. I assume that not because I believe everybody actually is, but because I believe, on the average, you do not get too far from it.”

“Y-y-you know what? Fine! Go ahead, join the Black Eyed Peas! I-I-I don't need you…I don't need anybody!”

“I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.”

“I don't need a guarantee if I have you.”

“I said I would write a introduction on one condition, that you people don't send me emails telling me liking war is a sign of unhealthiness or some psychoanalytical crap. I'm a war nerd. A backseat sergeant. I know what I am.”