The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.

My background is full of pain. My mother was in a Nazi concentration camp and our whole family was killed off. Then early on your father leaves and all you've got is your mother, and I was an only child. Then you come to a new country and I can't speak English.

When you're dead you don't have a mental problem.

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

What we have is pretty meaningless. It's what we are that counts.