My aim was to make money for the bank. You lose track of the amounts involved when you are engaged in this kind of work.

My only goal was to make the largest profit possible for my employer. I was caught in a spiral that - with the support of my bosses - continued to lead up and up.

Nobody knows everything that's hidden in the balance sheets of banks. In fact, they are completely impenetrable.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

We live in a world where money is necessary. You can't just go out and roam the forest and the cities, at least in America.

You can't connect with something you're not passionate about.

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

'Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.

Oh, Daisy, it's revolting the way I want to fawn all over him. I'm afraid I'm going to do something dreadfully silly today. Burst into song or something. For God's sake, don't let me.

It's kind of good to get that evil monkey off my back!