Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

We are still in the position of waking up and having a choice. Do I make the world better today somehow, or do I not bother?

E-mail is far more convenient than the telephone, as far as I'm concerned. I would throw my phone away if I could get away with it.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Being politically correct means always having to say you're sorry. Believe me, the power and pleasure and the emotion of this moment is a constant speed of light.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.