It takes brains. It's not like a forward, where you can get away with scoring and not play defense. On defense you have to be thinking.

When no one else signs me.

Guys like him ruin it for everybody else. It's just embarrassing. Or maybe he's not embarrassed because he probably believes he's not doing it-that's how liars are.

So here I am running at guys who aren't taller than 5-foot-8, and I'm the one who tears up his knee.

I've had some of the best times of my life at The KK. The best staff at the greatest college bar in the country!

I'm no one's pet, and I intend to be an independent voice in the U.S. Senate.

They’ll be black because that’s the way they’re seen. Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, have all known that. Will that change? Don’t hold your breath.

I don't myself believe that, even when we fulfil our minimum obligation not to cause pain, we have the right to kill animals.

I believe that, when [meeting of writer and reader] happens and the reader goes out into the world the next day, there's some alteration that might possibly inflect the person positively.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.

What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA is in fact crossover and is equally valid for anyone who likes to read fantasy.

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.