If you have to sit the whole evening with the most famous person in the world and he is a goddamn bore, you will want to run away and if you sit with a person who's completely unknown, but he's fascinating, you are delighted.

Americans are responsible not only for really starting a lot of things in a lot of countries, but also for giving people the confidence to do things they might never have thought to do.

I don't think people today need to derive security from possessions.

As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade.

Americans have started a lot of projects around the world and I am one of them.

Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.

Consumerism, what kind of car you have, what kind of house you have in the country and so on, and that is all very incidental when you examine the kind of person he may be. He may be a big bore, and then there is a person who hasn't done a thing in the world and he is a fascinating person.