I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

No matter what...ball made my heart beat faster, made me want to jump up and down and be Superman. That's what life was about anyway, being Superman and living like life itself was important. Basketball made my life important.

We all think we're different, but when it comes around, we end up needing the same things. Somebody to love us. Somebody to respect us.

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine.

And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.

My dad was a janitor for U.S. Radium Corporation, and he stayed there for 37 years. So he didn't read.