Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.

I'm just an old man and I smell bad, remember?

A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.

You know, I often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They're admired and hero-worshipped but there is always present underlying desire to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory.

I’ve never been certain whether the moral of the Icarus story should only be, as is generally accepted, ‘don’t try to fly too high,’ or whether it might also be thought of as ‘forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings.