How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

Love is like sunshine

I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.

Wherever it is you make your home, there is always this other place, this other person, calling to you. Come to me. Come back.

Norah watched him, serious and utterly absorbed in his task, overcome by the simple fact of his existence.

People think I have courage. The courage in my family are my wife Pam, my three daughters, here, Nicole, Jamie, LeeAnn, my mom, who's right here too.

It’s the glitches and twists, I thought, that make this universe unique and compelling. Without flaws, there would be no depth, no substance.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.

There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

I'm a record collector. I'd spend all my pocket money on vinyl.