During the course of my life, Grateful Dead played all the time. There were constantly concerts you could go to.

I don't sleep much. I'm on the go. My mind is racing. My wife says my mind is like the rolling dials on a slot machine. So, yeah, I think about everything.

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

I could smell colors, I could feel sounds.

Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.

But you have to understand, my beard is so nasty. I mean, it's the only beard in the history of Western civilization that makes Bob Dylan's beard look good.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

No matter how good you get, there's always something further out there.

I believe in science and evolution. I've been to the Grand Canyon.

Telling the truth is less demanding than telling a lie.

It is almost always better to listen and understand than express opinions to annoy.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Good things happen when you narrow your focus.

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

For who would live if life held no allurements?

In Boston they have gone from large autonomous high schools to smaller schools within the same building.

I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.