If you erased New York, I hate to say it, if you erased Frankfurt, even London, the world would not have changed.

In my teens I was interested in photography. Then I decided that I should learn something about the world of commerce. And I came to America at age 17 to escape Europe. I went to NYU - nothing better than being 17 years old and coming to New York.

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don't mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California's worth saving, to put it bluntly.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

I don't have a house, and I don't have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

Most countries in Africa have the capacity to be great agricultural producers, but they do only subsistence production. So a family will produce for themselves and nothing more. Why? Because of the systems: The markets are not there to go beyond.

I don't get that much enjoyment out of saying 'I own it.'