It's when I swim my best, but I don't like it very much.

I'm better at swimming. I had to stick with that.

It was the best I've felt at a meet. I usually work hard and get no rest. I'm usually tired before a race.

It's a good thing you and your pills weren't around a few hundred years ago or there never would have been a Vermeer or a Caravaggio. You'd have drugged "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and "The Taking of Christ" right the hell out of them.

Hope is the crystal meth of emotions. It hooks you fast and kills you hard.

Throughout my childhood, I did a form of Irish dancing that was kind of the precursor to 'Riverdance.' It was a mixture of ballet and Irish dancing that my teacher, Patricia Mulholland, had invented, essentially. It was Irish ballet, and she would create performances based around the myths and legends of Ireland.