In America, we love to give people second chances too - as long as you admit you were wrong and come back and do it the right way.

Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way.

I'm a big proponent of Hawk-Eye. I think it's a wonderful addition, not only for the players, but more importantly for the fans.

The dumber you are on court, the better you're going to play.

I will do everything in my power to make sure people are aware that our team is out there fighting the good fight for the tennis fans of the United States.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

If I had to choose one man to play for my life, it would be Nadal.

Us going out there and performing our best. That's how I define success. I'm not going to define it for us by the wins and the losses as much as by the effort and how we handle ourselves.

Hell be lucky to last five or six years on those knees. What it might have to come down to is playing less on hard surfaces and playing more on forgiving surfaces.

The good news is I have time.

Even the poor can be fat in the U.S.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

You cannot find comfort in ducks.Stoop to look into those beady brown eyes, and they will tell you no

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going.

There, carried high on a bank of clouds, hovers a shape, a triangle in the sky. This is the Holy Mountain Athos, station of a faith where all the years have stopped.

All writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read heard overheard. What else?

The writer's duty is to keep on writing.