Secretariat was just ridiculously endowed with every positive quality that a person would seek out in a non-human. He was very aware of his environment; he surveyed the terrain before he ran and would look people in the eye.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
