"People really do not have time to read all the newspapers in the world and all the sites that we now commonly use on the web. There is no possibility of keeping up."
"I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world."
"The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it."
"I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort."
"You can actually be bored stiff while you're dying."
"I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened."
"False praise is worse than no praise."
"What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?"
"Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives."
