If you only have one world, one life, then however brilliant it is most of the time, you have nowhere to run when you need to escape from it for a while.

I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

Man lives two lives, woe, were it otherwise! One is seized by death, the other one, his honor, remains.

Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.

Dealing with Greece's problems will be more difficult if Greece is not a member of the eurozone.

Doing what we were meant to do creates fun, excitement and contentment in our lives, and invariably, in the lives of the people around us. When you're excited about something it's contagious.

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that if you stop or curtail stop-and-frisk, or if cops are reluctant to do it, violent crimes are going to go up.

I've seen Jaws [movie], like, 800 times. And I love it.

As writers, we're always trying to connect with the audience on a visceral level. We usually do that through drama, through emotion or through humor.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.