The race car is harder to drive. If there was an in-car camera that could have watched me saw on that wheel for 500 laps, there wasn't one time I could relax.

I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit.

Then you have to answer to your car owner, you have to answer to the sponsor, you have to answer to all these folks why you're not racing. But that's the only way it will ever stop.

It was literally like the video game!

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man.

I think you could probably thaw out a glacier, honey." -Hardy Cates

Factual reporting is all too often propaganda designed to provoke certain reactions from the masses.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.

I don't have to prove anything to anyone. As a result, I am ready to take up again the characters who are closer to what I really am.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.

Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t be more simple, nor the stakes higher.