.. international hand of freindship. A cigarette

Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary, that's what gets you.

Multi-tasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.

I'm sorry, but having an Aston Martin DB9 on the drive and not driving it is a bit like having Keira Knightley in your bed and sleeping on the couch.

Change gear, change gear, check mirror, murder a prostitute, change gear, change gear, murder. That's a lot of effort in a day.

A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

Being smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

Speed focuses the mind. It cuts through the fog of drab everyday living and keeps us on our toes. Speed works. Speed saves lives. Speed is good. And we should have more of it, not less.

This car is more fun than the entire French air force crashing into a firework factory.

We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.

The history of the GDR journalism is a story of partisanship.

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

You can do anything, but lay off my blue suede shoes

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.