The hunger and desire to go racing, however, never leaves your blood but the right opportunity has never really come along - until now that is.

I've tried everything other than jumping out of a plane, but nothing gives you an adrenaline rush like racing a car.

I've been in motorsport my whole life since I was eight years of age.

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

Every GP Masters race will stand out because we will be available for fans, media and sponsors.

The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.

I've always been reasonably fatalistic.

Jack the Ripper – media myth arising when clever individual murderers concocted a monster so as to avoid suspicion.

Too many people say to their brokers, I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.

After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth.

Life is something you can't borrow and give back; Here today and gone tomorrow...just like that.

You always start off with passion and the people that have it.

Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.

The future belongs to the educated.

I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven.

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.