Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

Going into a game against Lew Alcindor [later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar] is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.

I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.

Even though he lived on the beach in college, he didn't have a tan. Now that's a serious player!

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

My family are my priority but I've always had a strong work ethic and I like to be busy.

I am not a witch. I'm nothing you've heard. I'm you.

Or. I hate that word. It’s two letters long and stuffed to the gills with reasonable doubt.

Hope I die before I turn into Pete Townshend. It would look ridiculous to do what we're doing now when I'm 40. That's why I want to destroy my career before it's too late.

Whether you are in the West, the East, the North, or the South, we should all feel pressured to attempt more, find new ways of outwitting ourselves, in our writing and thinking.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide.

Guess what? Faisal Shahzad is a registered Democrat. I wonder if his SUV had an Obama sticker on it.