"I've always liked new writing."

"Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it."

"At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy."

"You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough."

"We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged."

"My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen."

"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship."

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."