A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

I tried retiring a couple of times and it just didn't really stick so, but at some point enough things conspire together and it does stick.

The best way to protect your own freedom is to watch everybody else's back. That's the essence of community.

It is not that I don't recognize the danger in ski racing, but that I don't fear the consequences.

Sometimes it's all about the win, sometimes it's about the skiing.

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

Eventually I'd like to have a family. I'd like to not be limping around when I'm 50 years old.

Sometimes I'm disciplined, but I like to be a total slacker, too. I party hard, but I train hard.

I'm still having fun and as long as skiing is enjoyable, I'm going to continue to do it.

Obviously, you always want to win, but you want to win by skiing a race that you're proud of and you feel like you really challenged yourself and left it all out there.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

Don't be angry, Finnula had said, be smart.

To survive the Canadian winter, one needs a body of brass, eyes of glass, and blood made of brandy.

It ain't that I'm too big to listen to the rumors, It's just that I'm too damn big to pay attention to 'em.

A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.

I'm fortunate in that I don't think I've ever fallen in love with somebody who hasn't fallen in love with me. I actually think it's quite rare that that happens, in a true way.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

The reason why principles are so important is because principles make life predictable.

Research and writing are lonely occupations. It is easy to become discouraged in solitary confinement.