在我决定开展慈善工作时，我曾花费大量时间来研究历史上各大基金会的运作方式，然后考虑如果由我来做慈善工作，该如何这些工作更有效率。首先引起我关注的是全球人口增长问题，其次是全球生态环境问题。
——2000年10月18日出席西雅图一次会议时的发言
艺术是我唯一感到自由的地方。
the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.