Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death.
I have three dogs and a cockatoo.
In high school I never went to the prom because I was too consumed with gymnastics. Also, with my hair in pigtails and looking about 10, I wasn't exactly date material.
There's so much denial in gymnastics. It's a beautiful sport but the other part is numbing. You become machinelike. They'll refute this, but I've been around it. I know.
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
Seeing the show is like a visit to the fountain of youth for parents and the children.
Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
Today, the L. A. Times accused Arnold Schwarzenegger of groping six women. I'm telling ya, this guy is presidential material.
Friendship may sometimes step a few paces in advance of truth.
In America, where you'd have thought the country's so huge it couldn't happen quite so cosily, everyone's giving his imprimatur to everyone else. You line up three or four well-known poets and a couple of eminent academics on the dustjacket, and the rest of academe follow like sheep. That's death really, if you take pleasure in it. Mind you, the occasional puff's hard to resist, but you shouldn't inhale.
When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.