If you can't explain what you're doing in simple English, you are probably doing something wrong.

Whenever competition is feasible it is, for all its imperfections, superior to regulation as a means of serving the public interest.

I really don't know one plane from the other. To me they are just marginal costs with wings.

People express is clearly the archetypical deregulation success story and the most spectacular of my babies. It is the case that makes me the proudest.

You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.

Pan Am can go to hell.

‎No people whose word for 'yesterday' is the same as their word for 'tomorrow' can be said to have a firm grip on the time.

The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.

Truth needs wisdom's guidance. Wisdom prevents a hard truth from getting the best of you when an imperfect character brings out the worst in you.

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

I don't do any research. It's all about gut. Editing - it's always about gut.

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

Charity isn't a good substitute for justice.

You risk becoming a parody of yourself by not innovating.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

Make an effort to serve good bread and good meat and not to sell the better wine so as to serve what is inferior.