“I’ve always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.”

All forms of commerce are adversarial.

Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it’s accessed by the world.

You really want to get a headache? Try to understand Internet advertising.

What I’ve learned over the years is that focus and singular purpose is the best approach for businesses.

I still believe in synergy, but I call it natural law.

I never thought I was a very good manager.

The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can’t give them that but let’s always keep it in mind.

We need an unambiguous rule – a law – that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

Facebook’s the real deal. Nobody can buy Facebook now. Everybody has taken an angle at it. But Facebook may be the place that organizes everybody’s personal information. It’s got a very good chance of being that.

I’ve not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

If you have too many epiphanies, you’re on some kind of drug.

The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.

Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Now along comes the potential creative destruction brought by a different distribution methodology, the Internet.

I’ve always said that I play for the fans.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

Everyone has said I got my own sound.

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God.

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too.

You feel vulnerable when you hear things that are not being said.

Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.