I shot [Dream of Life] all on 16-millimeter, and I just wanted to learn about Patti [Smith].
Running is just such a monastery- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.
It's very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit.
The more I run, the more I want to run, and the more I live a life conditioned and influenced and fashioned by my running. And the more I run, the more certain I am that I am heading for my real goal: to become the person I am.
Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.
The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
Painting is the act of discovery and you're constantly enlarging your horizon or finding yourself every time you paint.
Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
Everyone is a flux - so it's good to suspend judgements forever.
I don't really believe in stories, only in the people who tell them.