Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

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.

You don't put your life into your books, you find it there.

Coming up with a useful, meaningful quote is getting more and more challenging each day....and you can quote me on that.

A writer is never alone

Fire is one of our best friends in this cold universe. Put some wood in it to show your gratitude.

There is no such thing as an “independent artist”. All artists are essentially co-dependent of the audience.

For-profit does not belong in a taxpayer-funded health system. For-profit means cutting medical services to patients, and payments to providers, to preserve profits.

I miss you.…” He stroked the indentation of the gown where her waist would have been—should have been. “I miss you so much.

I'm kind of a chatterbox and I talk really fast.

Water is the exile, carried back in cans and flasks, the ghost between your hands and your mouth.

You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.