Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.

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.

Incredible how quickly a world can change. How my entire person, our friendship, can be reduced to nothing, with just one confession.

Bring out others’ better side and they are more likely to see and support yours.

Give me a man who sings at his work.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

When I was 15 and then 16 years old, I spent two summers in Nicaragua for a service project. I took Spanish classes the first week and got acclimated to Central America. I loved it.

It got a little boring I guess, playing the same note over and over.

Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule.

Happiness may well consist primarily of an attitude toward time.

Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

One problem when you get energy and want to go with it is that with so large a cast of talented people, you have to wait three or four shows for some 'meat.'