You know, 'power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely'? It's the same with powerlessness. Absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely. Einstein said everything had changed since the atom was split, except the way we think. We have to think anew.

I am paraphrasing Einstein. I love to do that: nobody dares contradict me.

So how are things going along? Pretty good. Going to be good tomorrow? Hope so.

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses.

I call myself a radical conservative. What's that? Well, let's analyze it. Go to the dictionary. Radical: One who gets to the roots of things. And I'm a conservative because I want to conserve the green of the grass, the potability of drinking water, the first amendment of the Constitution and whatever sanity we have left.

The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.

The issue is jobs. You can't get away from it: jobs. Having a buck or two in your pocket and feeling like somebody.