My mother introduced me to many different things, and figure skating was one of them. I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

I tell people I'm too stupid to know what's impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.

Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.

Right now I am doing my residency in orthopedic research.

You can accomplish anything with pure persistence and drive.

What makes you really come together under pressure is determination and focus and toughness.

I was always very strong in math, physics and calculus.

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

If you trust your nerve as well as your skill, you're capable of a lot more than you can imagine.

I am not really sure how I got interested in medicine.

But I like it when my patients are impressed not knowing that I was an Olympian.

For any writer who wants to keep a journal, be alive to everything, not just to what you're feeling, but also to your pets, to flowers, to what you're reading.

Arms wrapped around me, I looked over the past boxed up and piled haphazardly about, like memories in a person’s brain. It was only a matter of knowing where a thought was and dusting it off.

First, you wounded a lion, and then you invite him to feast.

I kissed him until everything that hurt inside me melted into a pool of black water so deep I couldn’t touch the bottom. As long as I was touching him, I wouldn’t drown.

I will tell you in another life when we are both cats.

(Japanese Government believes that if you have a big laboratory with all the latest equipment and good funding it will automatically lead to creativity. It doesn't work that way.

The appearance of the law must be upheld - especially when it's being broken.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

A little story is supported by a lot of untold backstory. What they get is more than what they see.

My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.