It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia.

The bodies lay on the ground like damaged goods from a warehouse.

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

In the real world, children love me.

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.

The older that we get and the different stages we go through in life, it seems like we become different people. But I think that the truth is you are always the same person. You just discover these new things about yourself.

We love a growing private sector that allows people freedom of choice, to choose their health plan, to choose their doctor, to choose their hospital.

I just would like to keep going. If I kept getting the kind of work that I've been getting for the last 20 years for the next 20, I'd be a bloody Dame of the British Empire. I'd be so happy.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.

To wanna be me is to go through not just the good but the bad. You wanna share my story identically? Man, you gonna take some lumps.

I just want to work with the big people and the people who make great music.

You know, because of the lack of budget, we had to find neighborhoods where time had stopped - kind of stuck in the '50s. And no place had that better than Staten Island.

Obviously I have a capacity for feeling extreme anxiety, and there are people out there who don't. I'm to some extent rather jealous of them.

The two things I use the most are the MacBook Air and my iPhone. Those are my two most-used gadgets that are dented, scratched and smashed.

There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.

I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.

Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.

I have to trust something that gives me power; I have to believe in something, but in my career I have a lot of moments I cannot explain with God.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.

Adventure must be held in delicate fingers. It should be handled, not embraced. It should be sipped, not swallowed at a gulp.

In my situation, unlike some players who retire because they have no choice - either teams don't want them or injuries have caused them to retire, and they just can't do it - for me, I really had never thought I would give out mentally before I gave out physically, but I think that was the case.

Some people think that our planet is suffering from a fever. Now scientists are telling us that Mars is experiencing its own planetary warming: Martian warming. This has led some people, not necessarily scientists, to wonder if Mars and Jupiter, non signatories to the Kyoto Treaty, are actually inhabited by alien SUV-driving industrialists.

What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.

I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.