"I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head."

"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

"Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change."

"I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old."

"Imagine choosing a job not on money or even on career advancement, but as part of a life worth living."

"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."

"We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms."

"The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich."