If you see a good fight, get in it.

You should avoid hedging, at least that's what I think. You should be ashamed to die until you've made some contribution to mankind.

It is good to be the possessor of some mountain-top experience.

A dream is a wish your heart makes, when you're fast asleep.

she wanted because art

I am The Dragon And I have come!

I think that initial independence is very important that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

Our minds are big enough to contemplate the cosmos but small enough to care about who wins an Oscar

I think my very earliest stories were all intellectual exercises and I was writing from experiences I had never had about characters who were about an inch deep.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

To me, being a gangster was better than being President of the United States.