If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

Your grandparents did not endure the indignities of a steerage journey to Ellis Island so that you could stand outside a discothèque and beg a wallpaper designer to take you in with him.

I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.

There's also the idea in this country [USA], it's not wholly new, but it's new in its kind of purity, in that you have to be really smart to be really rich. I always say to people, the reason people believe this is a) they've never met a really smart person, and b) they've never met a really rich person. I have met both, and I cannot see the crossover. You do not have to be a genius to get rich. You have to be ruthless to get rich.

There were a zillion bad jobs. That doesn't exist any more. I mean, I could wake up one afternoon with zero money and know that by the end of the day, I would have money.

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Frenchman: Germans with good food.