David Geffen

I used to be able to read memo’s upside down… It was like going to the college of the entertainment business.

I see my role as a baby doctor helping people deliver their babies. I felt the same way in the music industry.

I wasn’t looking to be gay. I was quite upset when I discovered that was part of my life. I wished it would go away. But you can’t change who you are. And I tried to fight it in the beginning. And then I had a cancer scare in the mid-70’s. And that turned out to be a mistake, and I thought, ‘Life is too short.’

In Los Angeles, they don’t want you to fail, they want you to die.

I’m not Sammy Glick. I’ve never killed anyone. I don’t have to. I’m too talented.

We are each a figment of our own imagination.

If women didn’t exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

In the meantime, let’s agree that what makes a problem big is simply that it’s yours.

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

First we make our habits, then our habits make us.

You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.

You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.

I think I always feel like if everything went to shit, I would just teach improv at a theatre.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspision that he is trying to be funny.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.