To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.

So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.

Sometimes I believe...Sometimes I really do believe.

Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.

In Seattle we live among the trees and the waterways, and we feel we are rocked gently in the cradle of life. Our winters are not cold and our summers are not hot and we congratulate ourselves for choosing such a spectacular place to rest our heads.

[M]emory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present.

Those monkey-thumbs were meant for dogs. Give me my thumbs, you fu**ing monkeys!