I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Each day the sun would rise and set, the flag would be raised and lowered. Each Sunday I would have a date with my dead friend’s girl. I had no idea what I was doing or what I was going to do.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

Thanks to the long days of rain, the blades of grass glowed with a deep-green luster, and they gave off the smell of wildness unique to things that sink their roots into the earth.

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.