I'm calling on the Supreme Leader of North Korea, or as I call him, 'Kim,' to do me a solid and cut Kenneth Bae loose.

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.

Easy reading is damn hard writing.

... He is strong and pain is worse to the strong, incapacity is worse.

I need a timeout do to deal with my timeout! that's how messed up I'm.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

You have to risk going too far to discover just how far you can really go.

I'm pretty sure I ate ants in Mexico.