I never stay anywhere — parties , museums, meetings — longer than 3 hours.

In high school, I would drive my teachers batty. They would make a statement, and I would say, 'Why is that?' They didn't want to be questioned.

Time is the most valuable thing you have - and I'm not just talking about the minutes for which you're paid.

At a time when all the other builders were selling homes with basements but without carports, we would sell homes without basements and with carports. This allowed us to provide a more appealing product at a lower price. In other words, we felt we would be giving customers greater value.

How absurd that our students tuck their cell phones, BlackBerrys, iPads, and iPods into their backpacks when they enter a classroom and pull out a tattered textbook.

Artists rarely do the same thing over and over again. Art is about the new, doing things in a new way.

The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.