“Some people have an ability to negotiate. It's an art you're basically born with. You either have it or you don't.”

“Plenty of states, like Florida, still don't have [law guardians]. What does that tell you? Because with non-attorney guardians there's no attorney-client privilege. There's no ability to cross–examine witnesses, to subpoena evidence, to appeal. Basically you serve completely at the pleasure of the judge. And if you don't please the judge, you're history. What more of a message do kids need?”

“I'm a free trader. But the problem with free trade is you need really talented people to negotiate for you. If you don't have talented people, if you don't have great leadership, if you don't have people that know business, not just a political hack that got the job because he made a contribution to a campaign, which is the way all jobs, just about, are gotten, free trade terrible. Free trade can be wonderful if you have smart people, but we have people that are stupid. We have people that aren't smart. And we have people that are controlled by special interests. And it's just not going to work.”

“If you don't have ability, you wind up playing in a rock band.”

“There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We have no ability, and never will have, to manipulate death.”

“You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.”

“So basically what you're saying is you believe this to be true despite the fact that you have no evidence to support that”

“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.”

“No, you go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it's paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital. We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance.”

“Art has different meaning for different people. For some its realism, for some its escapism, and you have to accept that.”