It's just like sex; when [a book is] finished, it's finished.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

As long as an individual's alive, he will undergo experience in some form or other, and those experiences are stored up instant by instant. To stop experiencin' is to die.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.

When someone is trying very hard to get something, they don't. And when they're running away from something as hard as they can, it usually catches up with them.