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

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.

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.

We’re in a world now where it’s not enough to be smart. You have to be curious.

I absolutely believe the Internet is passing from its free days into a paid system. Inevitably, I promise you, it will be paid.

The entertainment business hasn’t had a new idea in years.

This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.

Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.

People have paid for content. They always have.

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

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.

I don’t want to set the world up for surprises.

I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.

The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

The alcoholic and the drug addict harm only themselves by their behavior; the person who violates the rules of morality governing mans life in society harms not only himself, but everyone.

Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I’m in a coma.

For years the league has thought I’ve been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.

Leave your drugs in the chemist’s pot if you can heal the patient with food.

Exhibitionism is like a drug. Hooked in adolescence I was now taking doses so massive they would have killed a novice.

By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!