I don't really listen to music before the game. I mean, I play it in my car on the way to the arena, but I don't really listen to music before the game. I'm usually working out or lifting weights.

I feel like if you play basketbal, you should want to improve all the time. You should never feel like you don't need to improve.

Obviously defense is my strength, but I still need to improve on that. I need to improve on offense. Every part.

Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species.

No one else has ever opened doors for me - I opened them myself.

People are going to do stupid things, but you don't take away the freedom because somebody makes a stupid decision.

I'm Armenian, but I'm very fair and I look white... I would always get such hate about it.

I applied to be an astronaut four times. I was rejected three times before I was accepted. So, it's about that, not - following your dream and not giving up.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.