"I wouldn't say there was a moment of realization when I wanted to be a runner; it was always just something I was."

“You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.”

“As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child”

“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.”

Source : "Source access vs dynamism". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. August 28, 1999.

“I think right about now we have to beware of marketed Malcolms and Martins. Real people do real things.”

Source : "Rapping the Vote With Chuck D". Interview with Jeff Chang, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2004.

“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”

“I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”

Source : Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

“I think the way design was practiced for most of the 20th century was very declarative. A designer came up with a solution for a project and put it in place and shipped the solution and it landed in a reader or a customer's hands as a brochure. They would see it as a poster, or as a piece of signage. And that was sort of it. That was the end of it. I think Internet technology has really upended that whole equation because in some ways a designer's work is never really done online.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

“I could build and roof a house, though electricity is not my thing.”