"What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity."

“Free speech is against governments, not against the NBA. So the players and coaches and indeed owners have been fined for their speech, which is costly rather than free. I sort of acknowledge that there is not free speech when you agree to work in the NBA.”

Source : "Interview: NBA Commissioner David Stern discusses Dwight Howard, new CBA". Interview with Josh Robbins, www.orlandosentinel.com. January 21, 2012.

“The press secretary who starts to narrow down or close the president's options because he answers delicate negotiating questions no longer serves the president.”

“The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.”

“No one seemed able to look at themselves, coolly, from the outside. Their reality was all that could be seen in the light cast ahead by their own wishful thinking.”

“Fundraising requires looking someone eye-to-eye and say, "Will you help me" and don't say another thing. Just listen to them.”

“Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!”

“I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.”

“Beth: "I don't think you realize what you're dealing with here. You can't just mess around with the forces of the universe!" Xavier: "What ever happened to free will? Or was that just a myth?”