But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

I just think that we're capable of so much more; we don't utilize all our capacity like we should.

That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

Going in, I knew I wasn't one of the top ones, because I didn't even make the pre-season All-American team. That shows you what people thought of me right there, so I knew I had to go to work.

At USC, if you're running back there, and you do gain you over 1,500 yards, people see you as a candidate, but not one of the top ones.

To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN.

You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the product of a great team. There are some players that stand out despite the teams that they play on, and there are some players that are good because of the team that they're with.

But there is something to the fact that we don't see games on the West Coast, or we don't see games on the East Coast, and stuff like that. It's so unfair, because there is a bias that takes place.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

I was saying earlier that it's really strange - you can almost step outside yourself and observe yourself running, and that's what I was doing.

I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games.

It's always hard - if you're not the best player on your team, how can you be the best player in college?

If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.

I think television keeps on being a place where writers can go, and if they're successful, they can have their way, and they can have creative freedom.

Audiences make their minds up about people they see on screen, just like they do in real life. That's what fascinates me in film. You see a character and have to think: is this person different to what I assumed he was when I first saw him?

Ice cream cravings are not to be taken lightly.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

The most important part of the body is the brain. Of my face, I like the eyebrows and eyes. Aside from that, I like nothing. My head is too small.

When I was teeny tiny, I definitely had a voice that didn't quite match the way I looked at five.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

There is no better example of the overreach of government than in environmental law.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

I have played a handful of rounds of golf with Wayne Gretzky.

There is a saying in Arabic meaning that every situation must be considered based on the realities on the ground. I can talk in some places freely, but not in others.

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people.

Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

My Cleveland years were both scientifically and personally most rewarding. My wife Judy was able to rejoin me in our research and my research group grew rapidly.

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Gay and lesbian people, and the children they are raising, wrongfully face discrimination, and I want them to know that I'm on their side.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Everything I do is the environment.

Addressing climate change and positioning the United States as the leader in advanced energy should be a top priority for our country and our economy, and I applaud the Obama administration for the steps it is taking.

80% of success is showing up.

I think a compliment ought to always precede a complaint where one is possible because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception.