But that's the thing about basketball: you don't play games on paper.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

Fear and bigotry don’t need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

A fiction writer is nothing more than the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate

How now, spirit, whither wander you?

The world won't get more or less terrible if we're indoors somewhere with a mug of hot chocolate.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

The ability to change constantly and effectively is made easier by high-level continuity.

[G]lobal warming, that manufactured monomania.

I am the cute one! She's just my sister.

Right now, nobody legalized paper money. Where did that come from.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.