All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd.
Obviously, I didn't think, and nobody else did, that the Iraqis were going to take ALL of Kuwait.
We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.
President Bush is an intelligent man. He is not going to declare an economic war against Iraq. [. . . ] I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that, and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on Arab-Arab conflicts like your border disagreement with Kuwait.
Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.
I sincerely believe that energy grows from itself and the more energy you expand the more you create within yourself.
To me, Fight Club was a comedy. When [David] Fincher sent me the book and I read it, the first thing I asked him was, "This is a comedy, right?" he said, "Yeah, that's the whole point," and I said, "Okay, I'm in. " I certainly wasn't imagining myself as a dramatic actor when I was running around in my underwear in that film.
Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.