When you put yourself on the line in a race and expose yourself to the unknown, you learn things about yourself that are very exciting.

We need a new, deeper appreciation of the ethnic histories of the American people, not a reduction of American history to ethnic histories.

I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.

I went up to Prince and said 'I'm a big fan of your stuff' and he looked at me and just walked off...left me standing there like a ****. He's a prat, but a clever prat.

In the taxi I let my hand lie on her leg like a promise, but I had no intention of keeping my promise.

Perhaps, she says (Madame de la Rougierre), Other souls than human are sometimes born into the world & clothed in human flesh.

A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the world is and what he would make of it.

I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul Newman.

I love everybody. Even George Bush.

The leader's role is to make sure that strategy is kept super simple.