"What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S."

“You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.”

“The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it is a creation, but above all in the fact that it is one of the most effective means of shaping our ideas and influencing our behavior.”

“No matter how you may excel in the art of Karate, and in your scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.”

“One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.”

“My first job in NYC was playing a gig in the early nineties at CBGBs.”

“I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.”

“I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.”

“you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.”