Why should I be limited by my own biography?

The Internet is not a place. It’s a great void, a black hole, from which you can call up an incredible amount of disorganized information.

The idea of fame is repulsive, I want to save the world.

I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.

I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.

Without adversity and trials we may never know what we are capable of.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

You know what the bounty is on bin Laden? $25 million. It sounds like a lot until you realize the Texas Rangers paid $250 million to get Alex Rodriguez.

Mom could say that in hindsight, but it seemed to me that when you were in the middle of something, it was awful hard to figure out what part of it was God's will and what wasn't.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

Design always has a purpose, art has no purpose. That's really the difference between them. Do I think one is better than the other? Absolutely not. I think they both fulfill functions.

There is a European Central Bank, of course, established and it has the structure similar to the Federal Reserve system, not precisely the same but similar.

It is important to experiment and endlessly seek after creating the best possible flavours when preparing foods. That means not being afraid to experiment with various ingredients

He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.