You have not learned to live until you have learned to give

I came from abject poverty. There was nowhere to go but up.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Virtue is not photogenic.

Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.

I guess I was a bad boy... Yes, yes, I've had lots of women in my life.

You haven't learned how to live until you've learned how to give.

Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.

Obey the voice within - it commands us to give of ourselves and help others. As long as we have the capacity to give, we are alive

The only advantage I have found in being Jewish is that I can be openly anti-Semitic.

My kids never had the advantages I had. I was born poor.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Greed:Your own lies make you sick.

It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Healthy disagreement, debate, leading to compromise has always been the American way.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

One minute I'm standing at Ronnie Scott's getting a standing ovation and the next minute, I'm on a marble slab

Another day, another opportunity to prove everyone who doubts you wrong.

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.