You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.