Independence is the outstanding characteristic of the runner.

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.

Globalization is the next big artworld idea

You may not be able to understand the world, but you can create your own world with your perception and imagination.

This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea that very thing happiness which I have been pursuing all my life and have never yet overtaken.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.

I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue though it may take some time before they can taste it.

Inside was the second LP album of a comedian's performance before an audience.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.