"Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good."

"I don't like being in houses alone."

"It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods."

"Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process."

"Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive."

"True wealth is not measured in gold, but in the belief that the river of time shapes the stones of destiny."

"The less money you owe, the less income you'll need and the less you'll have to save for tomorrow."

"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."