"I haven't figured out what China has done wrong? The PLA hasn't fired a bullet at border or abroad in over 30 years; we didn't overthrow any regime. What we have done are only a bit more of business and lifting Chinese people out of poverty."

"We must surely learn, from both our past and present history, how careful we must be not to provoke the anger of the native people by doing them wrong, how we should be cautious in our dealings with a…"

"But I thought: Of course -- Lyman was representing my own ideas about something else too; the overly gullible people who parade as skeptics. All many of them need is a word they've been some big shot …"

"The best part of being a songwriter — beyond being able to make a living at it — is what I call the "heart payment" of a song. That's when somebody comes up after a concert and says, "My mom was a sin…"

"Steffi has had some results in the past, but it's a faster, more athletic game now than when she played.... She is old now. Her time has passed."