I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Success is when the checks don’t bounce.

When I was in the hospital after I was shot they gave me drugs, but it was so great to get off those.

Maybe the reason my memory is so bad is that I always do at least two things at once. It's easier to forget something you only half-did or quarter did.

If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for our own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is when having them won't make you go crazy.

I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.