“I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”

“People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.”

“I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.”

“Wall Street is where prophets tell us what will happen and profits tell us what did happen.”

“What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened.”

“I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.”

“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”

“Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.”

“We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or truth or what's happening.”

“Ordinary fortune-tellers tell you what you want to happen; witches tell you what’s going to happen whether you want it to or not. Strangely enough, witches tend to be more accurate but less popular.”