"Some people just can't handle that they will never be a better actor than me"

“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”

“You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .”

Source : "The Dirge of Alaric, the Visigoth". The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, Volume V, No. 25, January-June 1823.

“Isolated and limited vision problem.”

“Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”

“A Big Wave is like a Beautiful Woman.....exciting to look at and thrilling to ride.”

“You should not really entertaining anyone else, but trying to be yourself, because there are already more good books than you or I could ever read in our lifetime.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“No matter how many WEAPONS you have, no matter how great your TECHNOLOGY might be, the world cannot live without LOVE.”

Source : "Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta [Castle in the Sky]". www.imdb.com. July 14, 1987.

“A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.”