My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate. Only on occasion--and fear considers this very important--does it want to know how things stand with me.

You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.

Peace is bald eagle Flying and flying over the treesIn search for a spotUnder the blue sky To build her nest to care.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Strictly speaking, you don't think: Thinking happens to you.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it's in your gut, your soul, there's nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.

Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

Being gone for so long and coming back into the game, I'm the type of person to reinvent myself pretty often and I can adapt to pretty much whatever genre is popping at the moment.