I've made some mistakes before.

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

It's not like I've been vaulting my whole life. I haven't. So my body hasn't taken that physical beating. I'm still on the upscale.

Pole vaulting is an event of high and lows.

It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

To fit into the need of God is to manifest his love-nature

...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..

Home's where you go when you run out of homes.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.

A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be.

Dropkick Murphys, everybody! That's a band!

Use the practice of mind and body; in order to make those moves perfectly, you have to pull your mind out of its mundane thoughts and awarenesses and bring it into the body movement.

People don't realize the limitations of 200 words, and the way they get chiselled down into a song that has to be sung.

I also have a feeling your mother’s going to have a very ugly conversation with me." – Dimitri

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone