I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between.

The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.