It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

I came out of a culture in which my uncle, my father - they were all salesmen of one kind or another. My father was a manufacturer. He also, in effect, had to sell that stuff. And if he didn't literally do it, his men did. So, selling was in the air through my boyhood. The whole idea of successfully selling was very important.

The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.