I never play golf because it takes too long, and the business connections it produces can be made just as easily over an early breakfast.

Civilizations are not remembered by their business people, their bankers or lawyers. They're remembered by the arts.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

The best move you can make in negotiation is to think of an incentive the other person hasn't even thought of - and then meet it.

Who you spend your life with-much more so than how you choose to spend it-is the most important decision you can make. Do it right. That's the best advice I can give you.

For businesses to be successful, they need to constantly ask the question: how can we provide value to our customers? At the end of the day, that is what matters.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

I have always believed that every great city in history needs a vibrant center.

If you have poor management that's not doing the right job, you end up with unions filling the void and... page after page of work rules and thicker and thicker contracts.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

After I had the kids, I took a break from work, and all my creativity went into my kitchen. I like experimenting.

Ralph Lauren was borin' before I wore him.

Literature is not only a mirror; it is a map, a geography of the mind.

I will risk everything to avoid being bored.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!