When you cross the finish line, it will change your life forever

A lot of people say they love running because of how they feel afterward. Not me. Well, I love that, too, but it's also so much fun while I'm out there.

I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

It was the sort of beauty you feel so deeply it becomes contagious and somehow makes you feel beautiful too.

Reality is always richer, more unpredictable than our deductions

Get Fired Up About Your Life Because If You Don't Who Will?

Maybe I should think of nothing at all? But that was passion impossible. As soon as I tried to thinking of anything, millions of ideas flooded my brain.

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

The art of living in a small town is one of the most difficult to acquire.

Education is... doing anything that changes you.

Sleep came slower than a frigid woman.

Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow.

Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.