When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.

I enjoy thinking about how race plays out over the centuries, how technology evolves, how cities transform themselves. These subjects are present in some of my books and absent in others.

'Star Trek' speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow - it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.

It wasn't popular for college athletics to embrace Title IX.

Yaar, television has become a very exhausting medium for actors now. It's like you are racing against time in the race for TRPs, which can be very saturating.

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

What does it take to be a great social chronicler? Perhaps one of the key attributes is an understanding of what it feels like to fall from grace.

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

If you don't address race, then people are like, 'Why don't you talk about the elephant in the room?' But you have to do it right. It can't be gimmicky.

I do want to race motorbikes when I retire.

Those weeks before diagnosis can be among the most torturous times. There is a reason you're called a patient once the plastic bracelet goes on.

The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

In our pugilistic take-no-prisoners era, preaching grace toward those on the other side of the political fence is decidedly countercultural.