My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

One of the advantages of being dead, I guess, is that somebody else can edit all this.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name. Remembered line from a long- forgotten poem

It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night.

As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.