Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an i...ndividual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think the worst thing this nation could do for humanity would be to leave any uncertainty as to our will, our purpose and our ca...pacity to carry out our purpose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or my music, then in that respect you can call me that.... I beli...eve in what I do, and I'll say it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is what Paris was in the twenties ... the center of the art world. And we want to be in the center. It's the greatest pla...ce on earth.... I've got a lot of friends here and I even brought my own cash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff--well, it mi...ght as well be dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »