People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

DNA tells you all the secrets of life, ’ he used to say. Except for one—how to live it.

When chasing success

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

In life, like, I'm always living life to the fullest to always have fun.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.