It never made sense to me that someone would achieve any kind of success in show business only to become a jerk.

I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

I never dreamt of being a musician for my livelihood. I certainly never would have wanted to be in the business that I'm in meaning the fame and the glory the glitter the rock star the famous part.

I wasn't looking to get into TV. My family was in the movie business so I was never interested in that world.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go and become a philanthropist.' I said 'No I can do that in the business world create a different kind of business - a business based on selflessness.'

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least I'm the least - I'm the most trusting I absolutely make a habit of believing anything that anybody tells me about themselves. I've never had any reason in the world to think that anyone has wanted to harm me or lie to me. I believe whatever is being sold most of the time.

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war because from my point of view you don't pry into other people's business.

I'll never forget that show season. It was completely mad. I was staying between Christy and Naomi's rooms and it was all limos and the Ritz Hotel and all that kind of business.