We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.

I'm the type of person who's never said never.

I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.

Nobody ever said that Hillary's nomination would be unopposed or would be something that was foreordained.

Fermat said he had a proof.

Freud said that we are born as a tabula rasa. This is a model that simply is too superficial and inadequate.

Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory said would yield a single price.

It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.

My agent said 'you've got clubs looking at you and United are one,' and I said: 'no they're not!'

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

I lasted one night. They said my playing spoiled people's appetites.

As a youngster, I think I said I wanted to be a journalist, but that's a disguise for being a writer.

People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

It needs to be said and heard: it's OK to be who you are.

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.