"The promise of every product and service is a better life. Profits are the prize for delivering on the promise."

“It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film.”

“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.”

“I don't think that jazz, as any kind of an art form, has any permanence attached to it, apart from the practitioners of it.”

“Now here is a key: you want to make it real and present in the realm of your consciousness. You don't say "I'm going to do such and such" - it already has happened. Now, is consciousness real? It exists and it is very powerful. The idea is to have this mesh between your consciousness - your visualization - and the so-called material world.”

“We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people.”

“Criminal cases receive the attention of the press. The cruel and disagreeable things of life are more apt to get the newspaper space than the pleasant ones. It must be that most people enjoy hearing of and reading about the troubles of others. Perhaps men unconsciously feel that they rise in the general level as others go down.”

“I pursue one goal the encyclopaedia of life.”

“The threat of world's end is the old threat.”