I wanted to fix things, obviously. You know it’s like… the planets are out of alignment when we’re fighting.

The mind reels.

You can make heaven out of hell, or hell out of heaven. The choice is yours.

What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with honestly, with sufficient clarity, and detail.

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs.

I'm really looking forward to just concentrating on the swimming part now instead of what's going on with me outside the pool.

One of the biggest reasons I bought the Lakers was to beat the Celtics.

Life itself is neither a good nor an evil: life is where good or evil find a place, depending on how you make it for them.

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

When you control seed, you control food.