When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.

I love to ride my bike, which is great aerobics, but also just a great time for me to think, so it's like this terrific double bill.

The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?

With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works.

I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass.

My mother's idea of natural childbirth was giving birth without makeup. She was hyper-positive - the world is a wonderful place, rainbows and unicorns. If you said anything contrary to her, you were basically exiled.