I love the process of being taken from where I am to somewhere else.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

My circumstances of unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction necessitated the short story form.

Negative anger that is unchecked is a fire out of control, it can burn everything in its path.

Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming

... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

The two areas that are changing... are information technology and medical technology. Those are the things that the world will be very different 20 years from now than it is today.

My brother, Mario, is in show business and so are all my cousins on my dad's side. We come from a family of musicians. My grandmother's sister in Puerto Rico plays five instruments.

I always try to think before I talk.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

I've always kind of been in the middle of every room, trying to get people together, no matter what color they were.