To be a champion long-distance runner you have to run on the edge of death.

The marathon is my only girlfriend. I give her everything I have.

If you think you are going to win, you'll lose. Moreover, if you think you are going to lose, you'll lose.

But she didn’t want to rest! – Her blood ran through her more slowly, its pace domesticated, like a beast that had trained its steps to fit in its cage.

If you are not an exception, try to be the example.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me.

Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility.

The longer I have been an atheist, the more amazed I am that I ever believed Christian notions.

The benefit of an open town hall meeting is one that you get to hear a lot of different views, and two it has credibility.

There is an ineffable but fatal difference in attitude between people behaving naturally and people behaving naturally for a camera.

I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do.

The value of art is its ability to look into the "world of oblivion" and to find things that are generally unrecognized, forgotten, invisible and impossible to tell.