At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

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.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

To me there is no difference whether president, beggar, or king.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

A great idea is not enough.

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.