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

I'm a fatalist.... I consider I am rejected in principle. My work is and, through my work, I am. If it's accepted, it's miraculous or the result of a misunderstanding.

A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

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

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

There might be a dragon with five legs in my house, but no one has ever seen it.