I like to test myself and see where I am and how I am against other people in this sport. I think that's the real draw for me.

I am the kind of person that if something scares me then I feel like have to do it. That's something I have to conquer. I need to break that fear and go to it.

If something scares me then I feel like I have to do it.

Dry August and warm Doth harvest no harm.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom.

If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)

Consider how many do not even know your name, and how many will soon forget it, and how those who now praise you will presently blame you.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.