We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.

Don't belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

The moon is my fear.The sun is my heart afire.The stars, my love songs.

Without challenge we become too comfortable with life.

A runner's high doesn't come from thinking about the end result, only of the moment, one step, one breath, one heartbeat at a time. It's the same for a writer ...

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

You know what I always say about basketball whenever anybody tried to tell me the Knicks are gonna be good: They're old. Old people don't get healthy. They die.

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac

I don't know if real courage lies in storming barricades or simply not denying the truth.

Eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods.

The moral disposition of the age appears in the refinement of conversation.