I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.

Nigel Mansell is the last person in the race apart from the five in front of him

Mansell can see him in his earphone.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.

And Michael Schumacher is 37 seconds ahead, so he can refuel the car, change all four wheels, take off his helmet, have a smoke and a cup of tea, and rejoin in first.

This would have been Senna's third win a row if he'd won the two before

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

We now have exactly the same situation as we had at the start of the race, only exactly the opposite.

A philosopher's main task is to compulsively filibuster

My arms are too short to box with God.

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

You know most of the food that Americans hold so dear - things like hamburgers and hot dogs - were road food, but even before they were road food, they were peasant food.

We need time to lose interest in things.

The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.

Eating, and hospitality in general, is a communion, and any meal worth attending by yourself is improved by the multiples of those with whom it is shared.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.