I couldn't care less what anyone's 'perception' of me is. I'm too long in the tooth to care.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die.. and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

America is not the center of the universe.

Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing can buy - you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose.