The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
In business or in life don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.
You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.
My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers it was a professor some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.
You watch a hockey game and the hand-eye coordination and the speed is really miraculous how those guys track the puck alone just following it with their eyes.
I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston Illinois in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age but they were doing it.
Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.