If people were possessed by reason, running marathons would never work. But we are not creatures of reason. We are creatures of passion.

Running is the classical road to self-consciousness, self-awareness, and self-reliance.

Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

Self-discipline is a learned habit that should be developed and continuously worked on through regular application, practice, and repetition.

Outside our small safe place flies mystery.

When we look ahead to 2018, we should expect big steps forward in science to come once again from changes in style rather than from marginal improvements in technology.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.

I'm not fat. It's just my awesomeness swelling up inside of me.

Prayerlessness is sin.

Everything flows, nothing stays still.

My father was a very successful businessman, but he was ruined in the stock market crash. A big stockbroker jumped out the window and fell on his pushcart.

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.