I don’t race cars.

You can be passionate about anything.

For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

I like talking. I like acting.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I don’t get bored.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

I used to watch MotoGP quite a bit, I liked MotoGP. I had a motorbike before I had a go-kart and before I had a motorbike I had a quad bike but I was too dangerous, and before I did quad biking I did horse riding, so it’s been a long journey.

I like the word ‚autopilot‘ more than I like the word ‚self-driving.‘ ‚Self-driving‘ sounds like it’s going to do something you don’t want it to do. ‚Autopilot‘ is a good thing to have in planes, and we should have it in cars.

Even though I had won in other categories, I didn’t have any expectations when I came into F1. Qualifying fifth, finishing sixth? I didn’t expect it.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

I always want to create and do things, or draw.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you’ve got to start saving. It’s not easy.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don’t have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

McLaren were one of the first teams I liked and supported.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

I don’t like to be bored.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

There are no small accidents on this circuit.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

I like my fair share of board games.

I raced with my brother from when I started to 2014 when I finished karting.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they’re not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I like making things. I don’t like getting my picture taken.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

Growing up I’ve watched Lewis and aspired to have some of his attributes, mainly his speed. His raw pace is probably the best of everyone on the whole grid, so there are bits you want from different drivers.

I have this old ’57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I’ll just sit there and listen to the sound of the latch going, ‚cluh-CLICK-click.‘ That door! I live for that door. Whatever the opposite of planned obsolescence is, that’s what I’m into.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Every driver is different, so I just hope whatever I do is going to be good enough, because it’s not that I just want to be with McLaren. I want to win with McLaren.

Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.