Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.

No rich man is a patriot, no rich man is a friend. They have all only got one fatherland the Ritz-Carlton; and one friend the mistress they're promising to divorce their wives for.

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves, there wouldn't be enough to go around.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

Venus can see at night without eyes.

Creation of something out of nothing is the most primitive of human passions and the most optimistic

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.

Include and grow. Include and expand.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

I never wear very serious suits. I don't have to because I don't go to an office, so it's fine.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

The great pleasure of life is doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.