It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It's easy to love them.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.

You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

You don’t have to swim when you know how to walk on water.

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Everything will be better in the morning. It always is.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

What's the point of being sad?" he says. "We're here now.

The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Fiction is not a dream. Nor is it guesswork. It is imagining based on facts, and the facts must be accurate or the work of imagining will not stand up.

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

My parents really instilled this idea in me of being your own person, almost to the extent that I couldn't do wrong. I'd get a bad grade and they'd be like, "No! What you did was great!"