My feet are like gnarled old tree branches.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

My rookie year, I was very immature.

I'm hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge.

You can love me or you can hate me.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

There's no image we can't improve.

Great victory requires great risk.-Hera

We call them grunters. They're ghost hunters but grunters is more appropriate because most of them are pigs.

The reason that everyone has their own problem is everyone sees something in different side.

Nothing lulls and inebriates like money; when you have a lot, the world seems a better place than it actually is.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

As long as we want to be different from what God wants us to be at the time, we are only tormenting ourselves to no purpose.

Many old people receive pensions for no other reason, it seems to me, but as a compensation for having lived a long time ago.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.