
Tails you win
“I’ve been banging away at this thing for 30 years. I think the simple math
is, some projects work and some don’t. There’s no reason to belabor either
one. Just get on to the next.”
—Brad Pitt accepting a Screen Actors Guild Award
Heinz Berggruen fled Nazi Germany in 1936. He settled in America, where
he studied literature at U.C. Berkeley.