Running clears my mind, and gives me a reason to get out of bed in the morning.

One’s age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You’d wake up in the morning, and you’d have no idea what your day was going to be. And that’s something I’ve never been able to shake. I loved that.

I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I’ll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I’ll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.

John Ford was so funny that I couldn’t wait to go to work in the morning.

You always say ‘I’ll quit when I start to slide’, and then one morning you wake up and realize you’ve done slid.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

I have come to understand and appreciate writers much more recently since I started working on a book last fall. Before that, I thought golf writers got up every morning, played a round of golf, had lunch, showed up for our last three holes and then went to dinner.

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.