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I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

I would have liked having children to some degree, but frankly I haven’t got the time to take the kids to the goddamn ballgame.

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it… you cannot do everything.

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you’re in boom times.

I have too many responsibilities and principles. There’s no time for ‘guilty’ pleasures.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

Friends take up time, and I didn’t have time.

Girls had never been important. I’d had a girlfriend or two and had liked them a lot but it wasn’t love, because my first love was tennis.