I find that, once you get into a position where you can afford a pair of shoes and a decent level of living, success in itself is empty.

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.

We have no obligation to make history. We have no obligation to make art. We have no obligation to make a statement. To make money is our only objective.

There's no good idea that cannot be improved on.

A brand is a living entity-and it is enriched or undermined cumulatively over time, the product of a thousand small gestures.

To punish failure is yet another way to encourage mediocrity.

Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.

Management is not a science, it is an art.

You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

The sonatas of Mozart are unique they are too easy for children and too difficult for artists.

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.

I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

When everything is in its right place within us, we ourselves are in balance with the whole work of God.

Considering the wealth of poetic drama that has come down to us from the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, it is surprising that so little of any value has been added since.

I would argue that coffee has been far more important to literature than alcohol.

It is easy for men to talk one thing and think another.

Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I’m as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!