I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

You are my best present and ultimate purpose of life.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

Debt is the worst poverty.

Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and hearing this kind of music just puts me in a fantasy world. It's a really great escape for me.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.

Talented people are restless at their core.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes.