I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.
If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.
Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.
I think about how best to live my grandmother's twin mantras that 'Life is not a dress rehearsal' and 'Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.'
I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.