War and Peace maddens me because I didn't write it myself, and worse, I couldn't.

Energy plus talent and you are a king, energy and no talent and you are still a prince, talent and no energy and you are a pauper

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date.

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

I do greatly admire Australian artists.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.