'I have this theory about smart people. If you're smart, you're either the only person in your family who's smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.'

If you're an incredibly famous rich person who does more in one day than I do in a month, does your perception of time's passing go slower or faster than it do…

'To be merely good enough is to never succeed.'

Nobody has ever been happy in a job they obtained by first handing in a resume.

The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance …

Em geral, nos outros, os Portugueses, so comecamos a ser idiotas - quando chegamos a idade da razao. Em pequenos temos todos uma pontinha de genio.

My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend.