A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

If you have moved over vast territories and dared to love silly things, you will have learned even from the most primitive items collected and put aside in your life.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

How many times can a man go down and still be alive?