As a boy, I was about the slkowest moving youngster in school.

Not only in running but in much of life is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.

Run like hell and get the agony over with.

I got plenty of cautions that one or two of these marathons was all a man should do in a lifetime.

Since I was forty and definitely slipping, I have won seven full marathons, got second six times, and third four times.... I'm wondering what I can do after I'm fifty.

His Kiss:He has me at his every whim

Poetry is a dance music measuring buck-and-wing follies along with the gravest and stateliest dead-marches.

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

I don't follow what everybody else does.

If you are not in the state of either acceptance, enjoyment, or enthusiasm, look closely and you will find that you are creating suffering for yourself and others.

People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.

If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.

If I’d known you were such a lush, I’d have given you the cheap stuff. Going to go out with a bang, are you?

I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.