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.

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

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

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

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.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I felt I was owned by possessions.