I'll say life is simpler.

If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

I went down and played with Magic Johnson at his all-star game in Atlanta. I remember Magic stopped the game and said, 'We need you here with us in L.A.

I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

If it wasn't for prison, I was in a bad way.

I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

I lost my way for a long time.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

I always relate respectfully with blue-collar people.

Decades from now, my grandchild is going to be a poet... And she's going to write about how she's a living testament to how her grandmother made love to hurricane and calmed the storm.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.

True listening is another way of bringing stillness into the relationship. When you truly listen to someone, the dimension of stillness arises and becomes an essential part of the relationship.

My wife [Tina Brown] co-founded the Daily Beast, so I have no hostility to the web or Internet. A number of print friends of mine regard it as the worst thing that's ever happened, but I don't.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.

I love what I do. But I want to go home, just for four days, then I'll get back on the road again.