Almost every part of the mile is tactically important: you can never let down, never stop thinking, and you can be beaten at almost any point. I suppose you could say it is like life.

The mile has a classic symmetry....It's a play in four acts.

If any running event, you are absolutely alone. Nobody can help you.

I’d rather lose a 3:58 mile than win one in 4:10.

God bless us everyoneWe're a broken people living under loaded gunAnd it can't be outfoghtIt can't be outdoneIt can't out matchedIt can't be outrunNo

And she said that sometimes you wish for something very hard, it can kind of come true inside your own head, and it can seem real.

My parents always knew that I loved music. They just didn't think I'd try to make it a career. They thought I'd be a painter or an art teacher or something like that.

I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.

They [my characters]speak to me all the time! In fact some of them never shut up!

Tax bills create wealth. They help people live better.

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.