“I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate.”
“I’m running a marathon. I won’t be jogging, walking, or sprinting, but I will be overseeing it.”
“A novel is something that stands at the end of a lengthy process called writing. It is not a preexisting Platonic form embedded within the writer... I do not have a Boston marathon inside me waiting to get out. The marathon is a peak experience I am rightly entitled to only as the culmination of years of regular training and love of running.”
“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.”
“So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?”
“The older I get, the surer I am that I’m not running the show.”