Like physical work, if you don't practice, you shouldn't expect results.

Stepping outside the comfort zone is the price I pay to find out how good I can be. If I planned on backing off every time running got difficult I would hang up my shoes and take up knitting.

Sometimes we live too much in the past, remembering what we wished had happened.

I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Happiness is only real when shared.

I like to think Duke Ellington would probably embrace a fragrance as well.

Freedom. I will not give you up.

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.

Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.