Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

If your vulnerability has become hardened, it's very, very difficult to be creative.

It may be that it is not given to us to know when we are angels. We may only be given to know when others are. This may be one of the reasons we need each other so.

Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends.

That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name.

We have a culture that is indirect in the extreme, where by the time you're five years old, you've watched tons of television, and have been subjected to what I call "the age of interruption," where everything is interrupted every minute. We have constant input from TV, computers, fax machines, telephones, etc. It's very hard for a modern American to have two hours of uninterrupted time. I know how it is because I insist on several hours of uninterrupted time each day, and I know how ruthless I have to be to get it.

If I had the money and the drinking capacity, I'd probably live at a roulette table and let my life go to hell.