Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift…. The hangover comes the day after.

The record of Borg and Vilas? I have thought about it.

So, the role of the Central Bank in Europe…is very reactionary. In fact, even American conservatives criticize them, as granting far too much authority to a wholly undemocratic institution; it’s just not answerable to the public.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

[on motherhood] I feel good, I’m proud of Election (1999) and very proud of this (her child). It couldn’t be a better time. It’s always the right time when it happens. You make it the right time.

I never trust an executive who tends to pass the buck. Nor would I want to deal with him as a customer or a supplier.

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

Vocalists must study music and know everything an instrumentalist needs to know.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars.

Never put more in a relationship than you can afford to lose.

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

Big institutions, like Goldman Sachs really don’t have to worry much about systemic risk because we don’t have a market system. So therefore they can run cap in hand to the nanny state and say ‘bail me out’ and that’s what happens.

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands and their kids and their dogs, and don’t spend a lot of time just getting back and taking time out.

I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

We seldom suffer from taking our subject of study too seriously, but we usually suffer when we take ourselves too seriously.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.