---excerpt from the book "Thin Ice Skater"

....‘A man who doesn’t initiate is no man at all,’ he often tells me. ‘That’s what life is all about.’... ‘Maybe I’m initiating by standing still,’ I tell him. ....‘Standing still is passivity,’ he says. ‘It takes nothing to stand still. We stand still when we are born and we stand still when we die.’ ....‘Maybe it takes more courage to stand still when everybody’s on the move,’ I tell him.”