the wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

I make enemies deliberately. They are the sauce piquante to my dish of life.

Someone has said that life itself is a party: you join after it's started and you leave before it's finished.

Keep your talent in the dark and you'll never be insulted.

Good manners - the longer I live the more convinced I am of it - are a priceless insurance against failure and loneliness. And anyone can have them.

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

I may have trust issues, but some people seem to have an issue with the responsibility of being trusted.

Times of calamity and distress have always been producers of the greatest men. The hardest steel is produced from the hottest fire; the brightest star shreds the darkest night.

I am what I eat. And I am this especially when I bite my nails.

In economics it is a far, far wiser thing to be right than to be consistent

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

With each film, i need an artistic challenge so I don't get bored! I like to tackle challenges.

Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.

The real satisfaction from mathematics is in learning from others and sharing with others.