I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!

Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing them down and rubbing some graphite on the spikes. I thought I would run more effectively.

I was backstage in Paris and saw Cindy Crawford doing House Of Style. I thought, I would love to to be in control of my career.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have.

(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.

I've given no thought to moving to America at all.

When you dream, you dialogue with aspects of yourself that normally are not with you in the daytime and you discover that you know a great deal more than you thought you did.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone. I would dream about a phone.

I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.

I would say that social work began in my mind in the Unitarian Church when I was ten or twelve years old, and I started to do things that I thought would help other people.