We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.

People often remain in the dark, not due to lack of light but of failure to open their eyes.

You just get injured more often. You take time off, you come back, you get injured again and you never get in shape.

Very rarely do you have a perfect race, and it's about overcoming your mistakes in the race and remaining composed.

It's about stepping up on the big stage. The athlete who can do that is goig to do well.

I figure if I have one false start every ten or 12 years that I've been running, I probably won't false start again during my career.

Apart from my absolute belief in National Socialism and my conviction of Hitler's superhuman heroism, I had always been attracted to Germany.

Harmony would only come with destruction.

You never know where life is going to take you. So everything I do, I just take it one day at a time, and it always leads you to the right place.

Stravinsky the composer I worship. Stravinsky the thinker I despise.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

The first time I tried to sing along with my guitar, everybody in the studio booed. They all said it wouldn't work.

Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow.

My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?

My mistakes are my life.

I am eternally grateful to all of the Latino groups outside of the Puerto Rican community, but including the Puerto-Rican community, who came to support me during the process [of nomination].