I wear my Peggy Fleming T-shirt when I go to sleep every night before I compete, and for the past four years, it's brought me incredible good luck.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacrifices and all the hardships and how difficult day-in and day-out it would be.

I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

One day you will tell me how to change what I cannot yet describe without my words swelling HUGE, vowels vanishing, tears washing ink away.

Life is now ... this day this hour ... and is probably the only experience of the kind one is to have.

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

The wider our contemplation of creation, the grander is our conception of God.

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

Pop Art is not painting because painting must have content and emotion.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

Poetry is an investigation, not an expression, of what you know.

Money is always on its way somewhere; we are only a way station. What we do with it while it's in our keeping will say much about us - as will the direction it takes after we speed it on its way.