(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- WARREN BUFFETT, 62, on the future business mix of Salomon Inc., which he ran as chairman for ten months after scandal hit the Wall Street firm, in which he has a big investment: ''It won't be the case that investment banking keeps losing money. But if it did, five years from now it would raise the question of whether we ought to be in the business.''

-- PABLO ESCOBAR, 42, Colombia's fugitive drug lord, on the hardships he endured in a prison where he spent 13 months awaiting trial before escaping: ''We were 15 prisoners, and there were only three computers.''

-- GEORGY ARBATOV, 69, former Gorbachev adviser and now head of the Institute of U.S.A. and Canada Studies in Moscow, on America's biggest problem: ''Like our country, you have to learn to live without an enemy.''