If I got something to say or do to a man, I'm going to look that man in the eye and tell him what is going to happen. That's just me now

Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

What excites me the most is when a coach calls a timeout and chews out his forward because I just dunked on his head.

What good is success if you're not willing to share it?

It takes people a while to trust you.

Sometimes, you follow your dreams. I say to the young people, 'If you have a dream, chase it.'

Lotta people don't know where Utah is but it in Salt Lake.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.

I realize that things happen for a reason

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

And I write novels!" chimed in the other cop. "Though I haven't had any of them published yet, so I better warn you, I'm in a meeeean mood!

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

Again, a smooth answer, signifying nothing.

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

You're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, and that's not saying much for you

Dreamt I died in Chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). Need to write my will today.

I'm socially conservative in some things. I don't know a label that fits, honestly.

Homosexuals are like Judas: They look good in a robe, and their kisses are legendary.

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited.