I've been in a Speedo half my life. So I am really comfortable with my body.

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Being happy outside the pool means fast swimming in the pool.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

I think you have to be weird to swim breaststroke.

I think being an athlete prepares you for more things than people give us credit for.

I know there's life after the Olympics.

I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.

I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

At 28, you need recovery time after training.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

You--cannot ever be certain of those you love--that they will not hurt you, even loving you. But to make me certain to love you, will be to take away any love I might give you freely.

Well, most textbooks say language is a mechanism for expressing thought. But language is thought. Thought is information given form. The form is language.

ALWAYS hook a reader. If a detail is unnecessary, it doesn't belong in your work, long or short! Make everything intriguing. If you have to describe a desk, make it awesome.

People aren't overcome by situations or outside forces. Defeat comes from within.

Only what is essential must be said.

Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

Every crime destroys more Edens than our own

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.