1. “The worst thing about being a great power is when you’re not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.”
2. “You didn’t wake up, your dreams just changed gear.”
3. “I see dull people as projects… to be reformed.”
4. “The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.”
5. “Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.”
6. “There are lots of thing I could have done for the money, but I’ve made a great living doing the things I want to do.”
7. “People who get through life dependent on other people’s possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.”
8. “Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”
9. “I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism an find it inspiring.”
10. “The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more national prices for that bounty does not change its real value.”
11. “I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.”
12. “Artists don’t create society, they reflect it.”
13. “I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.”
14. “I think to be cool is the worst possible ambition – an I have never suffered from it.”
15. “Leaders should never, ever try to look cool – that’s for dictators.”
