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

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.

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.

We want to be able to sell you anything, anywhere, any time you want it.

First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.

Sometimes kissing is better than sex. Especially kissing someone for the first time

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

I’m very into the first production of the show.

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That’s why I’m so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

At first the relevance of chattel slavery to libertarian ideals was noted only in individual passages of isolated pamphlets.

Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some people had religion and some people didn’t have religion