"I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness."

"I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things."

"The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago."

"The distance between ambition and reality is bridged solely by consistent effort."

"If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you."

"I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out."

"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."