You've got to be a Lakers fan growing up in L.A. with all these championships.

Lakers just been taking care of business for a long time now. It's easy to love them.

Martin Luther King Jr. was a great teacher and just a great person in general.

My great grandma, she's in her 80s, so she tells me a lot about the things she's seen. I learn a lot from her.

I just always loved watching the History Channel and stuff like that. I could come home from school and just watch it all day. It just interested me.

I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.

You see guys getting in trouble, but you also see the good in people. It's just a matter of always learning.

It's intense in every sport. No matter what, USC vs. UCLA is crazy. Especially when it comes down to football and basketball, it's just nuts.

I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice, but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.

To Death I yield but not to Doubt who slays before!

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

He’s harmless, poor thing. That’s what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn’t mean I have to like them.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

Scepticism is a necessary and vital part of the journalist's toolkit. But when scepticism becomes cynicism it can close off thought and block the search for truth.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

It is useless to put news agency stories behind the paid curtain because they are available in thousands of other places that will be free.