I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'

Anyone not busy learning is busy dying.

The belief that you have a great idea is not worth cuckoo spit. Ideas are ten a penny while the ability to execute counts for a great deal more.

People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.

Without self belief nothing can be accomplished. With it, nothing is impossible.

Say to yourself: The world is full of money. Some of it has my name on it. All I have to do is collect it.

Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together

Obviously, waste disposal is an enormous and fantastic industry.

I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

Rich people always have a certain degree of debt. Apparently it helps to reduce taxes. I'm not so hot on the bean-counting side.

He didn't blame James for falling in love with her, she was a radiant, deserving woman. He knew, however, that love only did one thing. It got in the way.

I’m begging you, for the love of all that’s filthy and wrong in this world, have a good time with tall, dark, and raspy, okay?

L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.

Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal.

Mystical state, madness, how it frightens people. How utterly crazy they become, remote, rude, peculiar, cruel, taunting, farouche as wild beasts who have smelled danger, the unthinkable.

I liked a lot of alternative and I like punk stuff.

About Last Night... [movie] still stands up for me. Like, I'm as proud of that today and still have the kind of faith in it today to show it to a young couple as I did when it came out.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

Originality is dangerous. It challenges, questions, overturns assumptions, unsettles moral codes.

Bring the genius of the rich to unleash the genius of the poor.