It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

Many runners worry about who is in the race, or they think about the time they must run to win. I only try to run as fast as I am capable - nothing less.

I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.

I am acutely aware that like a slip of paper in the wind, something in his nature eludes my grasp.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

I have always loved trouser suits. It's something I absolutely believe in for women.

Wit is the Fruitful Womb where Thoughts conceive.

Journalists belong in the gutter because that is where the ruling classes throw their guilty secrets.

Every time you share your vision, you strengthen your own subconscious belief that you can achieve it.

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.

We are prisoners of our own metaphors, metaphorically speaking.