“It is curious that it is far easier to maintain a high "manners" rating if, like Kasparov, you simply don't speak to anyone. I still have much to learn from the great man…”

“I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get to close: I don't like to touch things, that's why my work is so distant from myself”

“I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?”

“As far as my tax returns, you don't learn that much from tax returns. That I can tell you. You learn a lot from financial disclosure. And you should go down and take a look at that.”

“I speak from ignorance.
Who once learned much, but speaks from ignorance now.”

“But I still believe that I have not learned much and I have much more to learn.”

“I've learned never to say never. You just don't know. But I've reached an age when you start taking it easier. But I enjoy singing. I still sing – at home.”

“I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.”

“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.”

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”