Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.

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.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

We wish

No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

This was like watching murder. Defilement. And it was something worse than either of those things. Even among his family, black trade as they were, books were holy things.

The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]

I like time off because I also have a life outside of theater.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

I love variation in all forms: in painting, in music.

Never try to be better than someone else. Learn from others.

If you're demanding a rodeo jester be thrown in the dungeons for mocking the king, don't pretend you support a free country.

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.