I grew up in the heart of the Depression.

The MVP award was very satisfying in terms of personal accomplishments, but the championship was the most important thing of all.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid.

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African Americans.

Do your best when no one is looking. If you do that, then you can be successful at anything you put your mind to

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.

Do your best when no one is looking.

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

I am taking time to relax, renew and revive.

These felt very much like last moments.

The vampire's eyes were open, and he was staring at her intently. It was as though he were trying to speak to her with simply the power of a glare.Alexia did not speak glare-ish.

Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that ‘nothing’ is unstable.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

The oldest sibling always knows things that the younger ones don't.

A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.

Mike Royce and I have always had success writing what we know. What we know now is that we're middle-aged, neurotic and fat.

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!