You drive the car, you don't carry it.

Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.

Racing takes everything you've got -- intellectually, emotionally, physically -- and then you have to find about ten percent more and use that too.

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

There is very little in civilized life that demands everything you got intellectually, physically, and emotionally. Driving is living. It's aggressive instead of passive living.

Racing is a calling, a passion.

Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem.

Never stop dreaming. Never stop listening to the music that is inside of you.

[Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.

Demands for equality need to be as complicated as the inequalities they seek to address.

His resolve is not to seem the bravest, but to be.

It's sort of a fine line where you're dying to express it and then hoping no one really gets it that closely. But I'm pretty much over that. I'd really just like to be understood.

They live too long who happiness outlive.

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.

Privacy IS freedom. Leave us alone!

It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.