I feel I can fit with any player in the world.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

You've got to stay humble and hungry. Just keep working and thank God you have a chance to play in the NBA.

I've got a lot of work to do, a lot of people to make proud.

All I have to do is just enjoy my moment and have fun.

Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a program that fits your style of play.

Any team I go to will get an extremely hard worker, someone who never wants to take a day off, loves to play the game and is dedicated to winning.

I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Any time you can have your logo or your name on a shoe, growing up that's a dream come true.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

... all of us talk faster than we listen.

Tommy [ Lee Jones] doesn't suffer fools easily. I think everybody knows that, but I have great respect for someone that's very direct and very honest. I don't have thin skin so I'm okay with that.

Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*.

I'd like to rid myself of writing, to surrender, to release the venom. And hopefully at some point, I'll be a happy, well-adjusted guy and I'll have no need for all that 'art.'

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

If love be a god, why should not lovers be virtuous?

Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

I think music follows the trends of the collective conscious.