Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.
I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.
That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
So in fact the only thing you can judge in this sport its the longterm. You can judge a career or a season, but not one race.
Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
It's not too good to have this attitude in F1. It could be a disadvantage.
Maybe I am not French, maybe I am from nowhere.
Being compared to Ian Thorpe, that could be one of the greatest compliments you could ever get in swimming - being compared to him and Mark Spitz.
You know what kind of person it takes to run for President? Not normal. They could start out okay, but by the time they reach that level they've sold their soul to the devil so many times and stomped the guts out of enough people that they are definitely not like you and me, not even close.
I put on the page a third look at what I've seen in life - the reinvented experience of a cross-eyed working-class lesbian, addicted to violence, language and hope, who has made the decision to live, is determined to live, on the page and on the street, for me and mine.
Let a person only approach his or her own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts forth. Then we shall all be sound and free. . . . The creative spontaneous soul sends forth its promptings of desire and aspiration in us. These promptings are our true fate, which is our business to fulfill. A fate dictated from outside, from theory or from circumstance, is a false fate.