When you're 20, you think the whole world is talented, but whenyou get older, you realize the opposite is true.

I like my clients. All of my clients say, "Peter. You're talented. But, your best virtue is your discretion." They really don't want to be talked about.

I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

The older I get, the less I negotiate. When you first start out, it's 90 percent negotiation and 10 percent suggestion. When you get to a certain point, those figures reverse.

You must love yourself first to the soul of your aura.

Good writing just isn't that common.

I got my heel stuck in a drain as I was crossing the street and cars were coming. It was really scary. A girl in heels in New York is a hard combination.

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

I think of myself as still being about five.

Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

Let me tell you, there's no better medicine than a friendly card game for sloughing off the cares of a workaday world.

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect - to help people work together - and not as a technical toy.