I have found my hero and he is me.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Sweat cleanses from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.

Listen to your body. Do not be a blind and deaf tenant.

The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

The difference between a jogger and a runner is an entry blank.

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

I will not last forever. But I am damn well going to know I have been here.

I climb behind the steering wheel... I drive off immediately without once looking back

Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube.

While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

I've always been open to doing reality again. Just under certain circumstances.

No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.

You can’t know a book until you come to the end of it, and then all the rest must be modified to fit that.

More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.