I'm still no good at ball-and-stick games. If I go play golf with the guys, it's intended to be a joke.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want to hear a good song every day.

Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast.

From first to last, the peak is never passed. Something always fires the light that gets in your eyes.