Life is sweet when you pay attention. When it doesn't seem sweet, put a sticker on your nose and do a funky dance.

His older self had taught his younger self a language which the older self knew because the younger self, after being taught, grew up to be the older self and was, therefore, capable of teaching.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

Everything should be done to prevent Iran, the world's most dangerous regime, from developing the world's most dangerous weapons.

I blinked and I cured my brain.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

I guess that my activities inspire people and that I offer opportunities without realising what is going to happen next.

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

It sounds corny, but it's absolutely true: A song chooses me. I don't go looking for a certain kind of lyric. It kind of develops its own little arc and I'll just see what happens.

If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do.