At least when I'm sleeping I can dream myself back to Alex, can dream myself into a different world.

But you can build a future out of anything. A scrap, a flicker. The desire to go forward, slowly, one foot at a time. You can build an airy city out of ruins.

If you’re smart, you care. And if you care, you love.

Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down...

But for now, the future, like the past, means nothing.

on the day that started it all, that rocketed me forward and landed me here, in this new body, in this new future.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

If I get married, I think I'd pick out a newspaperman rather than a millionaire. A newspaperman is a regular fellow.

Money is just a way of keeping score.

Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.

The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.

Filmmaking is not a balancing act, although some directors think it is. I don't believe in it. I like ups and downs. They're the best way to translate my feelings to the screen.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.