“Two things are bad for the heart—running up stairs and running down people.”

“Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!”

“If you fall down those stairs and break both of your legs, don't come running to me!”

“Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.”

“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”

“Rain Valley newcomers pretty much fell into two groups: people running away from something and people running away from everything.”