The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.
I was a rotten kid. My excitement came from seeing what I could get away with.
To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.
If I can take it, I can make it.
Self-esteem can’t win you a race if you’re not in shape.
People say, on the raft, you must have hallucinated. Baloney. We were sharper after 47 days than the day we started because our minds were empty of all the war and contamination; we had clean minds to fill with good thoughts. Every day we'd exercise our minds.