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.

I've made some mistakes before.

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.

Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same?

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Life is a worthwhile adventure.

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

I want people to be excited about cooling towers and megasheds they're as much part of our history as the rural barn.

People who are too fastidious towards the finite never reach actuality, but linger in abstraction, and their light dies away.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Class still matters in Britain today.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.