Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.

He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.

I think we all want to be remembered for what we did.

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

I always talk to my students about the need to write for the joy of writing. I try to sort of disaggregate the acclaim from the act of writing.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

I don't allow Hollywood to define my joy, my happiness, and my peace because you'll be screwed. You have to be very careful.