With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

When I find out a hotel doesn't have a DSL, it's like "What? There's no toilet?" Once you get used to high speed you ain't going back

On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go.

A Pentagon official once said the people who would actually push the button probably have never seen a person die. He said the only hope -and it's a strange thought - is if they put the button to launch the nuclear war behind a man's heart. The President, then, with a rusty knife, would have to cut out the man's heart, kill the man, to get to the button.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers.