Predicting innovation is something of a self-canceling exercise: the most probable innovations are probably the least innovative.

Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people do not have basic freedoms, it wouldn't bug me to tax the living Dickens out of that thing or even to forbid its importation whatsoever. But that's a moral question, not an economic question.

The great thing about starting golf in your forties is that you can start golf in your forties. You can start other things in your forties but generally your wife makes you stop them, as Bill Clinton found out.

In the American political system, you're only allowed to have real ideas if it's absolutely guaranteed that you can't win an election

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow ... It is impossible to be alive and safe.

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.