Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Stop talking, " she said boldly as she closed the distance between them until they were touching. "We can walk to the bedroom or you can carry me but if you don't decide soon I may just go insane.

Houses are built to live in and not to look on.

I don't drink, and I don't smoke. It's a personal preference. My mom has never drunk or smoked. I look up to my mom.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white man's roads.

Marriage is when two people are joined together to become one desperately boring person.

I give 98 percent of my mental energy to Chess Others give only 2 percent

I needed to be pushed as an artist and as a person.

The concept of a woman with a terrible life who needs a man to come and rescue her, doesn't apply and isn't something we should probably be teaching kids.