A lie is real; it aims at success. A liar is a realist.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

I preferred an artist who transformed his time, not mirrored it.

Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something.

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

In autism there is just genes in part more or less of a probability that you will have the disorder, and that is where interactions with the environment are key.

All of consciousness is shifted from the imagined, the revisive, to the effort to perceive simply the cruel radiance of what is

I have always passed the ball and worked on that part of my game.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.