David Geffen

[on Bill and Hillary Clinton] Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling.

I think everybody thought I was crazy that I quit my job and started a management company in which I was managing one client – Laura Nyro.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing – but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

We were all young and we were all inventing our careers. I was very close to Jackson, just as I’d been very close to Laura Nyro. With each person I had a unique relationship.

When we first started DreamWorks, I said to Jeffrey, ‘We ought to call this new company the Spielberg Brothers. Anything Steven thinks is important, we want to invest in.

I forgive you for all the times you’ve f**ked me in the past and for all the times you’re going to f**k me in the future.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

The most closely organized groups and movements in the world are those which have been the least friendly to the people’s progress and liberty.

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

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.

Life has two rules: 1. Never quite 2. Always remember 1.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

I tell you, if you’re in the front row of the parade and you stop walking, pretty soon you’re back in the tuba section. And if you want to lead the parade you’ve got to keep moving.

The present method of producing milk is too laborious. I believe that we can make milk by scientific process, eliminating the cow.

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

We’re so afraid of each other… Colour, wealth, these things that don’t really matter still play too much of a role in how we see one another. And it’s sad, because the thing that least defines us is the colour of our skin.