"I'm a very private person, regardless of what the world may think of me."

“The market is like a machine that needs to be constantly excited. It needs to constantly produce wealth and more excitement. There are some leading players who are always there before everyone else, and they set market trends, they make people safe about the excitement. Of course, those who buy it first are the first to drop it. It's an ongoing game.”

“The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine.”

“It takes a person of great care and insight to watch for any abnormality in the green grass even while it grows abundantly and healthily.”

Source : "A Personal Matter". Book by Kenzaburo Oe, 1964.

“I’m honoured when Africa recognises me”

“I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.”

“Stealing is stealing, whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars.”

Source : "Reddit co-founder accused of stealing 4.8m JSTOR documents from MIT" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2011.

“If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!”

Source : Francis Thackeray, William Pitt (1827). “A history of the Right Honorable William Pitt, Earl of Chatham: containing his speeches in Parliament : a considerable portion of his correspondence, when Secretary of State, upon French, Spanish, and American affairs, never before published with an account of the principal events and persons of his time, connected with his life, sentiments and administrations ; (Mit dem Bildnisse Pitts)”, p.327

“Joe Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at age 30. Somewhere around 1992, he should have had to go out and get a real job.”