Everything I do now is about growing the pot to have more to give away.

Commodity exchanges have a lot of advantages. One, you are helping transparency. Two, they are not political. It’s institutional building. It can survive any environment, in theory.

I don’t get that much enjoyment out of saying ‘I own it.’

Other people might have family – three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn’t exist. I’m going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.

Brunch is boring, but that’s part of the charm of it.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I’m not.

I can drive. Let’s just say you don’t want to be in the passenger seat.

At the end, the key thing is you’ve got to live with yourself. That’s the real test. Everything else is fleeting.

I don’t have a house, and I don’t have a lot of time for socializing, so every year I have a party for all of my friends.

California has something which not every place in the world has: It has what I would call a sunny side, and I don’t mean just physically, but the sunny side is a future. California’s worth saving, to put it bluntly.