Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Some people can work their butts off and never get what they're aiming for while others can get it without any effort at all.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.

At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?