I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

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.

In those glorious moments when someone sees, really sees, your art and bothers to tell you so, relish it!

You know, Aunt Tasha makes jokes about how youʹd actually be a better queen than the others, except sometimes . . . I donʹt think sheʹs joking.

Written words are divine footprints on earth.

Just sit down and write! Me circa 2009

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you there of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right But where's the bloody horse?

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

The writer is always to some extent in exile, wherever he is, because he is somehow outside, separated from others; there is always a distance.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.