Information is currency. ... Power is a place as well as a verb; it is inside the information tent.

Everything can be undone, including success.

What turns a work crisis into a life crisis is the infusion of dread.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

True power is invisible and impeccable, like good taste. It is never clumsy or artless. Powerful people whisper, suggest, seduce, in order to coerce. They only use volume for effect. This is how you can tell a blowhard from a mogul. ... Most powerful people don't need to coerce; their mere presence is coercive.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.