Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

Great horror movies are earned. 'Halloween' is an earned picture. Every moment of grotesque violence is earned by the suspense they're able to maintain getting there.

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.

Don't call it death

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

It might be just some trend that came and went, ' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

Shame on me, for me to have this platform and me to have this opportunity to stand up for something that I thought was unjust, and I passed on it. I can't do that.

... the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.

My chronology is terrible. [Work with William Shawn] must have some ago. It was after he was fired by Newhouse. After New - when Newhouse bought The New Yorker, he said in one of those grand press

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.

I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.