One day the clean technique will come to my head

A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.

I wasn't fighting with Plushenko. I fought with myself and won

I am just a person who can't skate in the mountains

The People, when they start to applaud you and support, that means a lot

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Come! our world is done:For all the witchery of the world is fled, And lost all wanton wisdom long since won.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

I just want to entertain.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

We want to see ourselves as curious and open-minded and smart and understanding things in terms of context and nuance, but when someone tries to do that in the midst of a shaming they're turned on.

No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.

Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'