The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.

Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams

Has there ever been anyone quite like Paul Pierce ? No.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

Coffee is the highlight of my day. After coffee everything is downhill.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

In 1994, nobody could have predicted 'Shawshank' would one day be an iconic movie - and believe me, that would never have happened if Danny Glover had been Red instead of Morgan Freeman.

Anytime someone calls you and identifies themselves with their full name, odds are it isn't someone you want to talk to under any circumstances.

I think one of the great things about a football season is that you see teams play in all types of environments, and if you can't handle one of them, you probably don't deserve to win anyway.

I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.

One of my favorite things about basketball is that you can't break it down into some sort of science that makes total sense.

No two readers can or will ever read the same book, because the reader builds the book in collaboration with the author.

Like seduction, the Priestess took poisoning to an art form.

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.

If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.

There have been studies that clearly state that children who are exposed to arts education at a young age will in fact do markedly better in their SAT tests

It really will benefit every area of the business. Financial struggle is something I'm very familiar with as an independent designer.