I never thought of myself as a king. People really want you to be their deity. They forget the fact that you are a person who has feelings and doubts.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

People in Philadelphia are a world apart from New York. They're very different from people in the New York scene. The New York scene wants your visibility and wants your money.

I have never been a social lion; I was misidentified as one because I have a very attractive second wife.

I thought that ending Glass-Steagall was a mistake.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

He got drunk as usual, but instead of drifting to sleep, he stayed up, and at a white heat, wrote what had been sitting on his heart for decades.

You will not know all about the firesimply because you asked.When she speaks of the forestthis is what she is teaching you, you who thought you were her master.

No matter how big a name you are, how many big series you've been in or how good looking you are, in the end, all actors are secondary to the writer.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.

We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

An empty canvas is a living wonder - far lovelier than certain pictures.

A good picture knows how to communicate the emotion that created it.