Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

Let me read you some of my poetry. My poetry just takes me to another level.

Since I left basketball, and my wife, it's been a glorious feast of lovemaking.

I've traveled around the world and made love with many satisfied women. So I decided to share my story.

Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love.

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.

Rita got the best of us. We took quite a beating. It's going to take a while to come back from this.

I think I work much harder on the children's books. I suppose I enjoy that. I find it interesting that although there are more than 30 books in the Discworld series, it is the four that were written for children which have won the awards. I've never been quite certain why this is.

Violence in Darfur is cataclysmic.

During Seattle's successful campaign for a $15 an hour minimum wage, our opponents would sometimes roll their eyes and snort, 'If $15 is so good, why not $50?' It was a straw man argument: Nobody was proposing a $50 minimum wage; it would have been too high, and we said so.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.

God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.

When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.

I have a girl crush on Olivia Munn so much, especially on 'Newsroom.' And Cara Delevingne, but who doesn't love her face? Viola Davis is my acting crush.

People do all sorts of things impulsively and follow those impulses into strange places.

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture creating the building blocks for success.

As a child I experienced firsthand the severe effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially upon women and children. My parents taught me the importance of education and that it was a key to improving an individual's life.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

It's particularly hard to take being stabbed in the back close to home. There's always a feeling of betrayal when people of your own group oppose you.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

I know that if I could really understand mental illness, then it would be appropriate to make a big career shift. I would become a therapist and a leader in terms of mental illness. But I'm not in the position.

Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.

And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.

If there were an exact and universal scale of punishments and crimes, we would have a fairly reliable and shared instrument to measure the degree of tyranny and liberty, of the basic humanity or malice of the different nations.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.