The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.

take words and make them useful, ' she told me. 'drain them of all the crappy meanings they used to mean and make them mean something useful instead.

One frequently hears that there are not enough places for people to go. But where do we not go? We are too many and tread too heavily. (Perhaps the world is to blame for being too small.)

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

You think a lot of people get to be big stars and get a little crazy, but most of the ones I've ever met have always been surprisingly normal, and I've enjoyed that.

You know, I have more than enough to do without having to worry about the financial system.

I think the media and the candidates have got to talk about why the middle class is in decline and why we have massive levels of income and wealth inequality.

I love the fact that I have a show where you can run over a kid and everyone busts out laughing.

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

I do think there's something when you have an unbroken day, and it feels like you and your attention can just be together like birds again and you can actually think and dream a little.

If you don't come walking back to the pits every once in a while holding a steering wheel in your hands, you're not trying hard enough