Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

I'm not cocky at all. You ask anybody, I'm one of the nicest guys. I try to be as humble as I can, but if you work hard, sometimes you know that you earned more respect.

In the NBA, you can't run from guys. I think a lot of teams were surprised by my interviews, how nice and well-spoken I am as a player and as a person. I'm a guy who wants to learn.

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

Fame without Jesus Christ is a shame hereafter .

That's gotta be one of the principles behind reality. Accepting things that are hard to comprehend, and leaving them that way.

People have a negative impression of New York that I don't think is quite fair.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

It was amazing to be nominated by the Academy who saw fit for me to be nominated for best supporting actor. The Critic's choice award was wonderful. I'm on cloud nine.

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.