The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.