"In literature, as in life, everything is connected."

The art of competing, I’d learned from track, was the art of forgetting, and I now reminded myself of that fact. You must forget your limits. You must forget your doubts, your pain, your past.

We're not afraid of the future, we're not afraid of the past.

I couldn't remember the reason for living, and when I did it wasn't convincing.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.