America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.

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