The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.