"It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is."

"You do run and scream and cry and work yourself up into hysterics, and then you get back to the hotel at the end of the day, and you feel really off and really strange. And that's because rationally, even though you know everything is OK, you have put yourself through this traumatizing experience, and your body is still going."

"I use the Clairsonic Cleansing system to wash my face three times a week."

"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."

"I've never been an individual guy. I never cared about the accolades. I've always been driven by the competition and the learning process."