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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

For me, collecting is sort of a natural extension of being an art dealer, because if you don't want to collect the artist, then you probably shouldn't be representing them.

I'm addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.

I like money, but I want status.

You want to remain hungry and stay in a good place as a competitor; at the same time, you want to be confident but not cocky. You have to realize that you can lose. We have to stay hungry, because losing is the worst thing that can happen now. That's a road we don't want to go down.

The universe had an odd sense of fairness; it took away things one did not want to give up, and then gave things one did not ask for.

Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.

I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!

I want you to walk out of here tonight not loving me more, but loving yourselves more.

The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody.

all i want...is mac and cheese

You always want your work to be seen as long as it's good.

As a teenager especially, I just wanted to do my thing and not be noticed.

Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying.

You can't go and anticipate what it is that you want to see. You just have to be present. Be where you are.

You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly harassing you.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.

Men only know if you tell them. Even though you probably want them to just know, they won't.

The only life I want is one with you.

You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.